485BPOS 1 d375856d485bpos.htm WHITEBOX MUTUAL FUND Whitebox Mutual Fund

Registration No. 333-175116

811-22574

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

                Washington, D.C. 20549                

FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933                              (X)

Pre-Effective Amendment No.      (   )

Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 (x)

and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940    (X)

Amendment No. 6 (x)

(Check appropriate box or boxes.)

 

 

WHITEBOX MUTUAL FUNDS

 

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

3033 Excelsior Boulevard, Suite 300  

            Minneapolis, Minnesota            

 

  55416  

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)   (Zip Code)

                             (612) 253-6001                            

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code)

Mark M. Strefling
General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer
Whitebox Advisors, LLC
3033 Excelsior Boulevard, Suite 300
          Minneapolis, Minnesota 55416          
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
Copies to:
Matthew L. Thompson, Esq.   Peter D. Fetzer
Faegre Baker Daniels LLP   Foley & Lardner LLP
90 South 7th Street, Suite 2200   777 East Wisconsin Avenue
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55402   Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202

Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering: As soon as practicable after the Registration Statement becomes effective.

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

 

x immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

 

¨ on (date) pursuant to paragraph (b)

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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


EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Post-Effective Amendment (“PEA”) No. 4 to the Registration Statement of Whitebox Mutual Funds (the “Trust”) on Form N-1A hereby incorporates Parts A, B and C from the Company’s PEA No. 3 on Form N-1A filed October 31, 2012 and related 497 filing on November 5, 2012. This PEA No. 4 is filed for the sole purpose of submitting the XBRL exhibits for the risk/return summary first provided in the Prospectus filed on October 31, 2012 (the risk/return summary contained in the 497 filing on November 5, 2012 did not differ from that filed October 31, 2012).


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 requirements for effectiveness of this Amended Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act and has duly caused this Amended Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Minneapolis and State of Minnesota on the 13th day of November, 2012.

 

WHITEBOX MUTUAL FUNDS

        (Registrant)

By:   /s/ Bruce W. Nordin                        
 

Bruce W. Nordin

President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Amended Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date(s) indicated.

 

Name

     

Title

 

Date

/s/ Mark M. Strefling

                                   Chairman and Trustee   November 13, 2012

Mark M. Strefling

   

*

                                   Trustee   November 13, 2012

Joseph M. Barsky III

   

*

                                   Trustee   November 13, 2012

Timothy J. Healy

   

*

                                   Trustee   November 13, 2012

Lee Lieberman Otis

   

/s/ Bruce W. Nordin

                                   Principal Executive Officer   November 13, 2012

Bruce W. Nordin

   

/s/ Clint B. Semm

                                   Principal Financial Officer   November 13, 2012

Clint B. Semm

     
                                   *By: /s/ Mark M. Strefling                    
                                            Mark M. Strefling

                                          Attorney-in-fact

                                          November 13, 2012

 


EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit

   Exhibit No.

Instance Document

   EX-101.INS

Schema Document

   EX-101.SCH

Calculation Linkbase Document

   EX-101.CAL

Definition Linkbase Document

   EX-101.DEF

Label Linkbase Document

   EX-101.LAB

Presentation Linkbase Document

   EX-101.PRE