As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 31, 2017

File No. 333-08045

File No. 811-07705

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under the SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

Pre-Effective Amendment No.	¨
Post-Effective Amendment No. 24	x

and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

Under the INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940	¨
Amendment No. 26	x

(Check appropriate box or boxes)

Virtus Asset Trust

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Area Code and Telephone Number: (800) 243-1574

101 Munson Street

Greenfield, Massachusetts 01301

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

Kevin J. Carr, Esq.

Counsel

Virtus Investment Partners, Inc.

100 Pearl St.

Hartford, Connecticut 06103

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Copies of All Correspondence to:

David C. Mahaffey, Esq.

Sullivan & Worcester LLP

1666 K Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20006

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

¨ immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

x on June 22, 2017 pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485

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

¨ on                  or at such later date as the Commission shall order pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)

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

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

If appropriate, check the following box:

x this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

This Post-Effective Amendment consists of the following:

1. Facing Sheet of the Registration Statement

2. Signature Page

This filing incorporates by reference Parts A and B of Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 20 to its registration statement as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 27, 2017 as Accession # 0001571049-17-000767 and Part C of Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 21 to its registration statement as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 11, 2017 as Accession # 0001571049-17-003370. This Post-Effective Amendment is being filed for the sole purpose of delaying the effectiveness of Post-Effective Amendment No. 20 to June 22, 2017. 

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 for this registration statement under Rule 485(b) of the Securities Act and has duly caused this amendment to the registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Hartford and the State of Connecticut on the 31st day of May, 2017.

VIRTUS ASSET TRUST
By:	/s/ George R. Aylward
	George R. Aylward
	President

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 indicated on the 31st day of May, 2017.

Signature	Title
/s/ George R. Aylward
George R. Aylward	Trustee and President (principal executive officer)
/s/ W. Patrick Bradley
W. Patrick Bradley	Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer (principal financial and accounting officer)
*
Thomas J. Brown	Trustee
*
Donald C. Burke	Trustee
*
Roger A. Gelfenbien	Trustee
*
John R. Mallin	Trustee
*
Hassell H. McClellan	Trustee
*
Philip R. McLoughlin	Trustee and Chairman
*
Geraldine M. McNamara	Trustee
*
James M. Oates	Trustee
*
Richard E. Segerson	Trustee
*
Ferdinand L.J. Verdonck	Trustee

*By:  

/s/ George R. Aylward

*George R. Aylward, Attorney-in-Fact, pursuant to a

power of attorney