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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 18, 2012
1933 Act Registration No. 333-35883
1940 Act Registration No. 811-08361
 
 
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D. C. 20549
FORM N-1A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 þ
Post-Effective Amendment No. 31 þ
and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE
INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 þ
Amendment No. 32 þ
(Check appropriate box or boxes)
GOLDMAN SACHS VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
71 South Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60606
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code: (312) 655-4400
     
Peter V. Bonanno, Esq.   Copies to:
Goldman, Sachs & Co.   Stephen H. Bier, Esq.
200 West Street   Dechert LLP
New York, New York 10282   1095 Avenue of the Americas
(Name and address of agent for service)   New York, NY 10036
Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering: As soon as practicable after the effective date of the registration statement
It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box)
þ   immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
 
o   on (date) pursuant to paragraph (b)
 
o   60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
 
o   on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
 
o   75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
 
o   on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of rule 485.
If appropriate, check the following box:

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

 

 

EXPLANATORY NOTE
This filing relates solely to the following series and classes of the Registrant:
Service Shares of the Goldman Sachs Structured U.S. Equity Fund, Goldman Sachs Core Fixed Income Fund, Goldman Sachs Money Market Fund, Goldman Sachs Structured Small Cap Equity Fund, Goldman Sachs Strategic Growth Fund, Goldman Sachs Large Cap Value Fund, Goldman Sachs Mid Cap Value Fund, Goldman Sachs Strategic International Equity Fund, Goldman Sachs Growth Opportunities Fund, Goldman Sachs Equity Index Fund and Goldman Sachs Government Income Fund.
Institutional Shares of the Goldman Sachs Structured U.S. Equity Fund, Goldman Sachs Structured Small Cap Equity Fund, Goldman Sachs Strategic Growth Fund, Goldman Sachs Large Cap Value Fund, Goldman Sachs Mid Cap Value Fund and Goldman Sachs Strategic International Equity Fund.

 

 

SIGNATURES
          Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 31 under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 31 to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City and State of New York on the 18th day of May, 2012.
         
GOLDMAN SACHS VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST
 		  
By:   /s/ Peter V. Bonanno    
  Peter V. Bonanno   
  Secretary   
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to said Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.
         
Name   Title   Date
1James A. McNamara
  President (Chief Executive Officer)   May 18, 2012
James A. McNamara 
   and Trustee     
 
1George F. Travers
  Principal Financial Officer and   May 18, 2012
George F. Travers
   Senior Vice President     
 
1Ashok N. Bakhru
  Chairman and Trustee   May 18, 2012
Ashok N. Bakhru
        
 
        
1Donald C. Burke
  Trustee   May 18, 2012
Donald C. Burke
        
 
        
1John P. Coblentz, Jr.
  Trustee   May 18, 2012
John P. Coblentz, Jr.
        
 
        
1Diana M. Daniels
  Trustee   May 18, 2012
Diana M. Daniels
        
 
        
1Joseph P. LoRusso
  Trustee   May 18, 2012
Joseph P. LoRusso
        
 
        
1Jessica Palmer
  Trustee   May 18, 2012
Jessica Palmer
        
 
        
1Alan A. Shuch
  Trustee   May 18, 2012
Alan A. Shuch
        
 
        
1Richard P. Strubel
  Trustee   May 18, 2012
Richard P. Strubel
        
         
   
By:   /s/ Peter V. Bonanno    
  Peter V. Bonanno,   
  Attorney-In-Fact   
 
 
1      Pursuant to powers of attorney previously filed.

 

 

CERTIFICATE
The undersigned Secretary for Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust (the “Trust”) hereby certifies that the Board of Trustees of the Trust duly adopted the following resolution at a meeting of the Board held on June 16, 2011.
     RESOLVED, that the Trustees and Officers of the Trust who may be required to execute any amendments to the Trust’s Registration Statement be, and each hereby is, authorized to execute a power of attorney appointing Peter V. Bonanno and James A. McNamara, jointly and severally, their attorneys-in-fact, each with power of substitution, for said Trustees and Officers in any and all capacities to sign the Registration Statement under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 of the Trust and any and all amendments to such Registration Statement, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, the Trustees and Officers hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may do or may have caused to be done by virtue hereof.
Dated: May 18, 2012
         
     
  /s/ Peter V. Bonanno    
  Peter V. Bonanno,   
  Secretary   

 

 

         
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