485BPOS 1 a_pftcover.htm PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST

 

 

 
  As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on   
  January 17, 2020  
   
  Registration No. 333-515 
  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. 328  / X / 
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  REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY  / X / 
  ACT OF 1940  ---- 
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  Amendment No. 327  / X / 
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  PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST  
  (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)  
   
  100 Federal Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110  
  (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 December 30, 2019 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   
  100 Federal Street   
  Boston, Massachusetts 02110   
  (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 Emerging Markets Equity Fund, Putnam Focused Equity Fund and Putnam Global Technology Fund, each a series of Putnam Funds Trust. Information contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement relating to any other series of the Registrant is neither amended nor superseded hereby.

PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST

 

Putnam Emerging Markets Equity Fund

Putnam Focused Equity Fund

Putnam Global Technology Fund

 

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 17th day of January, 2020.

 

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
  January 17, 2020
   
*Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 297 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on October 26, 2018.