485BPOS 1 a_pftcover.htm PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
September 14, 2018
 
  Registration No. 333-00515 
  811-07513 
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
 
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FORM N-1A
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  REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933  / X / 
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  Pre-Effective Amendment No.  /  / 
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  Post-Effective Amendment No. 293  / X / 
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  REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY  / X / 
  ACT OF 1940  ---- 
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  Amendment No. 294  / X / 
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PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
 
One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
 
Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code
(617) 292-1000
 
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  It is proposed that this filing will become effective 
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/  /  immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) 
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/ X /  on August 30, 2018 pursuant to paragraph (b) 
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/  /  60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) 
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/  /  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. 
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If appropriate, check the following box: 
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/  /  this post-effective amendment designates a new 
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  ROBERT T. BURNS, Vice President 
  PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST 
  One Post Office Square 
  Boston, Massachusetts 02109 
  (Name and address of agent for service) 
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  Copy to: 
 
  BRYAN CHEGWIDDEN, Esquire 
  ROPES & GRAY LLP 
  1211 Avenue of the Americas 
  New York, New York 10036 
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This Post-Effective Amendment relates solely to the Registrant's Putnam Capital Spectrum Fund, Putnam Equity Spectrum Fund and Putnam Multi Cap Core Fund series. Information contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement relating to any other series of the Registrant is neither amended nor superseded hereby.



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 of 1933, as amended, and has duly caused this Amendment to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Boston, and The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 14th day of September, 2018.

 

Putnam Funds Trust

 

By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, Executive Vice President,
Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison

 

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

 

Signature Title
Kenneth R. Leibler* Chair, Board of Trustees

 

Robert L. Reynolds* President and Trustee

 

Jonathan S. Horwitz* Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison

 

Janet C. Smith* Vice President, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Assistant Treasurer

 

Liaquat Ahamed* Trustee

 

Ravi Akhoury* Trustee

 

Barbara M. Baumann* Trustee

 

Katinka Domotorffy* Trustee

 

Catharine Bond Hill* Trustee

 

Paul L. Joskow* Trustee

 

Robert E. Patterson* Trustee

 

George Putnam, III* Trustee

 

Manoj P. Singh* Trustee

 

 

 

By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, as Attorney-in-Fact
  September 14, 2018
   
*Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 269 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on October 27, 2017.