485BPOS

Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 20, 2013

Securities Act of 1933 File No. 333-141120

Investment Company Act of 1940 File No. 811-22027

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, DC 20549

FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933	x
Pre-Effective Amendment No.	o
Post-Effective Amendment No. 82	x
and
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940	x
Amendment No. 84	x

(Check Appropriate Box or Boxes)

FUNDVANTAGE TRUST

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

301 Bellevue Parkway, Wilmington, DE 19809

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code: (302) 791-1851

Joel L. Weiss

BNY Mellon Investment Servicing (US) Inc.

103 Bellevue Parkway

Wilmington, DE 19809

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Copies to:

Joseph V. Del Raso, Esq.

Pepper Hamilton LLP

3000 Two Logan Square

Philadelphia, PA 19103

It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box)

x immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

o on (date) pursuant to paragraph (b)

o 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)

o on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)

o 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)

o on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.

If appropriate, check the following box:

o This post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 82 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A is filed for the sole purpose of submitting exhibits containing interactive data format risk/return summary information for the Gotham Neutral Fund.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirement for effectiveness of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 82 to its Registration Statement on Form N-1A under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 82 to its Registration Statement on Form N-1A to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Wilmington, State of Delaware on the 20th day of September 2013.

	FUNDVANTAGE TRUST
By:	/s/ Joel Weiss
	Joel Weiss, President and CEO

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 82 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

/s/ Robert J. Christian*		Trustee	September 20, 2013
Robert J. Christian
/s/ Iqbal Mansur*		Trustee	September 20, 2013
Iqbal Mansur
/s/ Nancy B. Wolcott*		Trustee	September 20, 2013
Nancy B. Wolcott
/s/ Donald J. Puglisi*		Trustee	September 20, 2013
Donald J. Puglisi
/s/ Stephen M. Wynne*		Trustee	September 20, 2013
Stephen M. Wynne
/s/ James Shaw		Treasurer and CFO	September 20, 2013
James Shaw
/s/ Joel Weiss		President and CEO	September 20, 2013
Joel Weiss
* By:	/s/ Joel Weiss
	Joel Weiss
	Attorney-in-Fact

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

EXHIBIT NO.	DESCRIPTION OF EXHIBIT	PAGE NO.
EX-101.INS	XBRL Instance Document
EX-101.SCH	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
EX-101.DEF	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase
EX-101.LAB	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase
EX-101.PRE	XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase

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Risk/Return:

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Risk/Return [Heading]

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Gotham Neutral Fund

Objective [Heading]

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Investment Objective

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The Gotham Neutral Fund (the “Fund”) seeks long-term capital appreciation with minimal correlation to the S&P 500® Index.

Expense [Heading]

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Expenses and Fees

Expense Narrative [Text Block]

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This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

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Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment):

Operating Expenses Caption [Text]

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Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):

Portfolio Turnover [Heading]

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Portfolio Turnover

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The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio).  A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account.  These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.

Other Expenses, New Fund, Based on Estimates [Text]

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"Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.

Expense Example [Heading]

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Expense Example

Expense Example Narrative [Text Block]

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This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund’s Institutional Class shares for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Strategy [Heading]

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Summary of Principal Investment Strategies

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The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing under normal circumstances in long and short positions of equity and equity-related securities.  By taking long and short positions in different securities, the Fund attempts to limit the effect of market movements on portfolio performance.  The Fund will generally take long positions in securities that the Adviser believes to be undervalued and short positions in securities that the Adviser believes to be overvalued, based on the Adviser’s analysis of the issuer’s financial reports and market valuation.

The Adviser seeks to capitalize on market inefficiencies by employing a systematic bottom-up approach based on fundamentals of financial performance to identify companies that appear to be undervalued or overvalued on both an absolute and relative basis.  Using publicly available financial data, the Adviser’s approach consists of:

· Researching and analyzing each company in the Adviser’s coverage universe according to a proprietary methodology that emphasizes fundamentals such as recurring earnings, capital efficiency and valuation;

· Identifying and excluding companies that do not conform to the Adviser’s valuation methodology or companies judged by the Adviser to have questionable financial reporting;

· Updating the analysis for earning releases, 10-Ks, 10-Qs and other corporate filings; and

· Recording analysis in a centralized database enabling the firm to compare all companies and identify the best longs and shorts on a daily basis.  This firm-wide database fosters transparency and accountability and is central to the Adviser’s investment process.

The long portfolio is rebalanced daily to weight most heavily those stocks that are priced at the largest discount to the Adviser’s assessment of value.  In general, as a company appears cheaper its weight in the portfolio increases. Similarly, the short portfolio is rebalanced daily to weight most heavily those short positions selling at the largest premium to the Adviser’s measures of value.  The Adviser seeks to maintain the Fund’s net equity exposure, which is the value of the Fund’s long positions minus its short positions, in the range of approximately 0%-25%.  Because the Fund rebalances its long and short positions on a daily basis, the Fund may experience a high portfolio turnover rate.

Equity securities include common and preferred stocks.  Equity-related securities include convertible bonds, convertible preferred stock, warrants and rights.  There are no limits on the market capitalizations of the companies in which the Fund may invest.  The Fund will principally invest in equity and equity-related securities of U.S. issuers but may invest in equity and equity-related securities of foreign issuers.

Risk [Heading]

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Summary of Principal Risks

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The Fund is subject to the principal risks summarized below.  These risks could adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), yield and total return.  It is possible to lose money by investing in the Fund.

· Equity Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to greater fluctuations in market value than other asset classes as a result of such factors as a company’s business performance, investor perceptions, stock market trends and general economic conditions.  The rights of equity holders are subordinate to all other claims on a company’s assets including debt holders.  The value of equity securities could decline if the financial condition of the companies decline or if overall market and economic conditions deteriorate.  Equity investments risk a loss of all or a substantial portion of the investment.

· Market Risk: The Fund is subject to market risk—the risk that securities markets and individual securities will increase or decrease in value.  Market risk applies to every market and every security.  Security prices may fluctuate widely over short or extended periods in response to market or economic news and conditions, and securities markets also tend to move in cycles.  If there is a general decline in the securities markets, it is possible your investment may lose value regardless of the individual results of the companies in which the Fund invests. The magnitude of up and down price or market fluctuations over time is sometimes referred to as “volatility,” and it can be significant.  In addition, different asset classes and geographic markets may experience periods of significant correlation with each other.  As a result of this correlation, the securities and markets in which the Fund invests may experience volatility due to market, economic, political or social events and conditions that may not readily appear to directly relate to such securities, the securities’ issuer or the markets in which they trade.

· Value Style Risk: Investing in “value” stocks presents the risk that the stocks may never reach what the Adviser believes are their full market values, either because the market fails to recognize what the Adviser considers to be the companies’ true business values or because the Adviser misjudges those values. In addition, value stocks may fall out of favor with investors and underperform growth stocks during given periods.  Value-oriented investment approaches are subject to the risk that securities believed to be undervalued do not appreciate in value as anticipated or decline in value.

· Short Sale Risk:  Short selling a security involves selling a borrowed security with the expectation that the value of that security will decline so that the security may be purchased at a lower price when returning the borrowed security.  The risk for loss on short selling is greater than the original value of the securities sold short because the price of the borrowed security may rise, thereby increasing the price at which the security must be purchased.  Although the Fund’s gain is limited to the price at which it sold the security short, its potential loss is limited only by the maximum attainable price of the security, less the price at which the security was sold and may, theoretically, be unlimited. Government actions also may affect the Fund’s ability to engage in short selling.  In addition, the Fund may be subject to expenses related to short sales that are not typically associated with investing in securities directly, such as costs of borrowing and margin account maintenance costs associated with the Fund’s open short positions. These types of short sales expenses (sometimes referred to as the “negative cost of carry”) negatively impact the performance of the Fund since these expenses tend to cause the Fund to lose money on a short sale even in instances where the price of the underlying security sold short does not change over the duration of the short sale.

· Small and Mid Cap Securities Risk: Investments in small and mid cap companies may be riskier than investments in larger, more established companies. The securities of smaller companies may trade less frequently and in smaller volumes, and as a result, may be less liquid than securities of larger companies. In addition, smaller companies may be more vulnerable to economic, market and industry changes.  As a result, share price changes may be more sudden or erratic than the prices of other equity securities, especially over the short-term.  Because smaller companies may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources or may depend on a few key employees, they may be more susceptible to particular economic events or competitive factors than large capitalization companies.

· Management Risk:  As with any managed fund, the Adviser may not be successful in selecting the best-performing securities or investment techniques, and the Fund’s performance may lag behind that of similar funds.  The Adviser may also miss out on an investment opportunity because the assets necessary to take advantage of the opportunity are tied up in less advantageous investments.

· Portfolio Turnover Risk:  The Fund may sell its securities, regardless of the length of time that they have been held, if the Adviser determines that it would be in the Fund’s best interest to do so.  It is anticipated that the Fund will frequently adjust the size of its long and short positions. These transactions will increase the Fund’s “portfolio turnover” and the Fund may experience a high portfolio turnover rate (over 100%).  High turnover rates generally result in higher brokerage costs to the Fund and in higher net taxable gain for shareholders, and may reduce the Fund’s returns.

· Limited History of Operations: The Fund is a recently formed mutual fund and has a limited history of operations. The Adviser also has a limited history of advising a mutual fund.

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It is possible to lose money by investing in the Fund.

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Performance Information

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The Fund’s performance information is only shown when the Fund has had a full calendar year of operations.

Performance One Year or Less [Text]

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The Fund's performance information is only shown when the Fund has had a full calendar year of operations.

Institutional Class

Risk/Return:

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Redemption Fee (as a percentage of Amount Redeemed)

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(1.00%)

Management Fees

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2.00%

Distribution and/or Service (Rule 12b-1) Fees

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none

Dividend and Interest Expense on Securities Sold Short

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1.52%

Other Operating Expenses

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0.25%

Other Expenses

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1.77%

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Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses

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3.77%

Expense Example, with Redemption, 1 Year

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$ 379

Expense Example, with Redemption, 3 Years

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$ 1,152

[1] "Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.

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Gotham Neutral Fund

Gotham Neutral Fund

Investment Objective

The Gotham Neutral Fund (the “Fund”) seeks long-term capital appreciation with minimal correlation to the S&P 500® Index.

Expenses and Fees

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment):

Shareholder Fees	Gotham Neutral Fund Institutional Class
Redemption Fee (as a percentage of amount redeemed within 90 days of purchase)	1.00%

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment):

Annual Fund Operating Expenses		Gotham Neutral Fund Institutional Class
Management Fees		2.00%
Distribution and/or Service (Rule 12b-1) Fees		none
Other Expenses	[1]	1.77%
Dividend and Interest Expense on Securities Sold Short		1.52%
Other Operating Expenses		0.25%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses		3.77%

Expense Example

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund’s Institutional Class shares for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses remain the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

Expense Example (USD $)	1 year	3 years
Gotham Neutral Fund Institutional Class	379	1,152

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio).  A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account.  These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance.

Summary of Principal Investment Strategies

The Fund seeks to achieve its investment objective by investing under normal circumstances in long and short positions of equity and equity-related securities.  By taking long and short positions in different securities, the Fund attempts to limit the effect of market movements on portfolio performance.  The Fund will generally take long positions in securities that the Adviser believes to be undervalued and short positions in securities that the Adviser believes to be overvalued, based on the Adviser’s analysis of the issuer’s financial reports and market valuation.

The Adviser seeks to capitalize on market inefficiencies by employing a systematic bottom-up approach based on fundamentals of financial performance to identify companies that appear to be undervalued or overvalued on both an absolute and relative basis.  Using publicly available financial data, the Adviser’s approach consists of:

· Researching and analyzing each company in the Adviser’s coverage universe according to a proprietary methodology that emphasizes fundamentals such as recurring earnings, capital efficiency and valuation;

· Identifying and excluding companies that do not conform to the Adviser’s valuation methodology or companies judged by the Adviser to have questionable financial reporting;

· Updating the analysis for earning releases, 10-Ks, 10-Qs and other corporate filings; and

· Recording analysis in a centralized database enabling the firm to compare all companies and identify the best longs and shorts on a daily basis.  This firm-wide database fosters transparency and accountability and is central to the Adviser’s investment process.

The long portfolio is rebalanced daily to weight most heavily those stocks that are priced at the largest discount to the Adviser’s assessment of value.  In general, as a company appears cheaper its weight in the portfolio increases. Similarly, the short portfolio is rebalanced daily to weight most heavily those short positions selling at the largest premium to the Adviser’s measures of value.  The Adviser seeks to maintain the Fund’s net equity exposure, which is the value of the Fund’s long positions minus its short positions, in the range of approximately 0%-25%.  Because the Fund rebalances its long and short positions on a daily basis, the Fund may experience a high portfolio turnover rate.

Equity securities include common and preferred stocks.  Equity-related securities include convertible bonds, convertible preferred stock, warrants and rights.  There are no limits on the market capitalizations of the companies in which the Fund may invest.  The Fund will principally invest in equity and equity-related securities of U.S. issuers but may invest in equity and equity-related securities of foreign issuers.

Summary of Principal Risks

The Fund is subject to the principal risks summarized below.  These risks could adversely affect the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”), yield and total return.  It is possible to lose money by investing in the Fund.

· Equity Securities Risk: Equity securities are subject to greater fluctuations in market value than other asset classes as a result of such factors as a company’s business performance, investor perceptions, stock market trends and general economic conditions.  The rights of equity holders are subordinate to all other claims on a company’s assets including debt holders.  The value of equity securities could decline if the financial condition of the companies decline or if overall market and economic conditions deteriorate.  Equity investments risk a loss of all or a substantial portion of the investment.

· Market Risk: The Fund is subject to market risk—the risk that securities markets and individual securities will increase or decrease in value.  Market risk applies to every market and every security.  Security prices may fluctuate widely over short or extended periods in response to market or economic news and conditions, and securities markets also tend to move in cycles.  If there is a general decline in the securities markets, it is possible your investment may lose value regardless of the individual results of the companies in which the Fund invests. The magnitude of up and down price or market fluctuations over time is sometimes referred to as “volatility,” and it can be significant.  In addition, different asset classes and geographic markets may experience periods of significant correlation with each other.  As a result of this correlation, the securities and markets in which the Fund invests may experience volatility due to market, economic, political or social events and conditions that may not readily appear to directly relate to such securities, the securities’ issuer or the markets in which they trade.

· Value Style Risk: Investing in “value” stocks presents the risk that the stocks may never reach what the Adviser believes are their full market values, either because the market fails to recognize what the Adviser considers to be the companies’ true business values or because the Adviser misjudges those values. In addition, value stocks may fall out of favor with investors and underperform growth stocks during given periods.  Value-oriented investment approaches are subject to the risk that securities believed to be undervalued do not appreciate in value as anticipated or decline in value.

· Short Sale Risk:  Short selling a security involves selling a borrowed security with the expectation that the value of that security will decline so that the security may be purchased at a lower price when returning the borrowed security.  The risk for loss on short selling is greater than the original value of the securities sold short because the price of the borrowed security may rise, thereby increasing the price at which the security must be purchased.  Although the Fund’s gain is limited to the price at which it sold the security short, its potential loss is limited only by the maximum attainable price of the security, less the price at which the security was sold and may, theoretically, be unlimited. Government actions also may affect the Fund’s ability to engage in short selling.  In addition, the Fund may be subject to expenses related to short sales that are not typically associated with investing in securities directly, such as costs of borrowing and margin account maintenance costs associated with the Fund’s open short positions. These types of short sales expenses (sometimes referred to as the “negative cost of carry”) negatively impact the performance of the Fund since these expenses tend to cause the Fund to lose money on a short sale even in instances where the price of the underlying security sold short does not change over the duration of the short sale.

· Small and Mid Cap Securities Risk: Investments in small and mid cap companies may be riskier than investments in larger, more established companies. The securities of smaller companies may trade less frequently and in smaller volumes, and as a result, may be less liquid than securities of larger companies. In addition, smaller companies may be more vulnerable to economic, market and industry changes.  As a result, share price changes may be more sudden or erratic than the prices of other equity securities, especially over the short-term.  Because smaller companies may have limited product lines, markets or financial resources or may depend on a few key employees, they may be more susceptible to particular economic events or competitive factors than large capitalization companies.

· Management Risk:  As with any managed fund, the Adviser may not be successful in selecting the best-performing securities or investment techniques, and the Fund’s performance may lag behind that of similar funds.  The Adviser may also miss out on an investment opportunity because the assets necessary to take advantage of the opportunity are tied up in less advantageous investments.

· Portfolio Turnover Risk:  The Fund may sell its securities, regardless of the length of time that they have been held, if the Adviser determines that it would be in the Fund’s best interest to do so.  It is anticipated that the Fund will frequently adjust the size of its long and short positions. These transactions will increase the Fund’s “portfolio turnover” and the Fund may experience a high portfolio turnover rate (over 100%).  High turnover rates generally result in higher brokerage costs to the Fund and in higher net taxable gain for shareholders, and may reduce the Fund’s returns.

· Limited History of Operations: The Fund is a recently formed mutual fund and has a limited history of operations. The Adviser also has a limited history of advising a mutual fund.

Performance Information

The Fund’s performance information is only shown when the Fund has had a full calendar year of operations.

[1] "Other Expenses" are based on estimated amounts for the current fiscal year.

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