485BPOS 1 needham_bxbrl.htm POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT FOR XBRL needham_bxbrl.htm
 
File No. 33-98310
811-09114 
 
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.
[  ]
  
Post-Effective Amendment No. 27
[x]
  
and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
  
[x]
Amendment No. 29
    
 
(check appropriate box or boxes)
 
THE NEEDHAM FUNDS, INC.  
(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
 
445 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10022  
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)                                                                                         (Zip Code)
 
Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code:  (212) 371-8300
 
 
James W. Giangrasso
Copy to:
Jana Manes, Esq.
 
The Needham Funds, Inc.
  
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
 
445 Park Avenue
  
180 Maiden Lane
 
New York, New York 10022
  
New York, NY 10038
 (Name and Address of Agent for Service)
 
Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering: as soon as practicable, following effectiveness of this filing.
 
It is proposed that this filing will 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)

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75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
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on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485

If appropriate, check the following box:
 
[  ]           this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

Explanatory Note:  
This Post-Effective Amendment No. 27 to the Registration Statement of The Needham Funds, Inc. on Form N-1A hereby incorporates Parts A, B and C from the Company’s PEA No. 26 on Form N-1A filed April 30, 2013.  This PEA No. 27 is filed for the sole purpose of submitting the XBRL exhibit for the risk/return summary first provided in PEA No. 26 to the Trust’s Registration Statement.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SIGNATURES

 Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this registration statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act and has duly caused this amendment to Registrant's registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized in the City of New York, State of New York, on the 22nd of May, 2013.
 
THE NEEDHAM FUNDS, INC.

By    /s/ George A. Needham                            
George A. Needham
Chairman and President

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


Signature
  
Title
Date
       
/s/ George A. Needham                      
      
George A. Needham
 
  
Director, Chairman and President
(Principal Executive Officer)
 
 May 22, 2013
/s/ John W. Larson                           
     
John W. Larson
 
  
Director
 May 22, 2013
/s/ James P. Poitras                           
     
James P. Poitras
 
  
Director
 May 22, 2013
/s/ F. Randall Smith                            
      
F. Randall Smith
 
  
Director
 May 22, 2013
/s/James W. Giangrasso                    
      
James W. Giangrasso
  
Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer
and Secretary (Principal Financial
and Accounting Officer)
 May 22, 2013
 
 
 
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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

 
 
 
 
 
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