485BPOS 1 alpha_485xbrl.htm POST EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT alpha_485xbrl.htm

Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 16, 2011
 
1933 Act Registration File No. 333-17391
1940 Act File No. 811-07959
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549

FORM N-1A
 
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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Pre-Effective Amendment No.    ____    
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Post-Effective Amendment No.     344 
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and
 
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
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Amendment No.    346 
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(Check appropriate box or boxes.)
 
 
ADVISORS SERIES TRUST
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
 
615 East Michigan Street
Milwaukee, Wisconsin  53202
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
 
(Registrant’s Telephone Numbers, Including Area Code) (414) 765-6609
 
Douglas G. Hess, President
Advisors Series Trust
c/o U.S. Bancorp Fund Services, LLC
777 East Wisconsin Avenue, 5th Floor
Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53202
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
 
Copies to:
 
Domenick Pugliese, Esq.
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
75 East 55th Street
New York, New York 10022
 
 
It is proposed that this filing will become effective
 
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immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
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on ____________ pursuant to paragraph (b)
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60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
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on ____________ pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
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75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
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on ____________ pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.

If appropriate, check the following box

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

Explanatory Note: This Post-Effective Amendment (“PEA”) No. 344 to the Advisors Series Trust’s (the “Trust”) Registration Statement on Form N-1A hereby incorporates Parts A, B and C from the Trust’s PEA No. 341 on Form N-1A filed January 26, 2011.  This PEA No. 344 is filed for the sole purpose of submitting the XBRL exhibit for the risk return summary first provided in PEA No. 341 to the Trust’s Registration Statement for its series: Alpha Defensive Growth Fund and Alpha Opportunistic Growth Fund.

 
 

 
 
SIGNATURES


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that this Post-Effective Amendment No. 344 meets all of the requirements for effectiveness under Rule 485(b) and the Registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 344 to its Registration Statement on Form N-1A to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin, on the 16th day of February, 2011.

Advisors Series Trust

By:/s/ Douglas G. Hess
         Douglas G. Hess
         President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 344 to its Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

Signature
 
Title
Date
       
Sallie P. Diederich*
 
Trustee
February 16, 2011
Sallie P. Diederich
     
       
Donald E. O’Connor*
 
Trustee
February 16, 2011
Donald E. O’Connor
     
       
George J. Rebhan*
 
Trustee
February 16, 2011
George J. Rebhan
     
       
George T. Wofford*
 
Trustee
February 16, 2011
George T. Wofford
     
       
Joe D. Redwine*
 
Trustee, Chairman and
February 16, 2011
Joe D. Redwine
 
Chief Executive Officer
 
       
/s/ Cheryl L. King
 
Treasurer and Principal
February 16, 2011
Cheryl L. King
 
Financial Officer
 
       
/s/ Douglas G. Hess
 
President and Principal
February 16, 2011
Douglas G. Hess
 
Executive Officer
 
       
*By:/s/ Douglas G. Hess
   
February 16, 2011
Douglas G. Hess
Attorney-In Fact pursuant to
Power of Attorney
     
 
 
 
 
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EXHIBIT LIST

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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