485BPOS 1 d852334d485bpos.htm GOLDMAN SACHS VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST Goldman Sachs Variable Insurance Trust

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 21, 2015

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    x
   Post-Effective Amendment No. 60    x

and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

   THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940    x
   Amendment No. 61    x

(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

 

 

 

Copies to:
Caroline Kraus, Esq.   Stephen H. Bier, Esq.
Goldman, Sachs & Co.   Dechert LLP
200 West Street   1095 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10282   New York, NY 10036
(Name and address of agent for service)  

 

 

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)

 

x immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
¨ on (date) pursuant to paragraph (b)
¨ 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
¨ on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
¨ 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
¨ on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of rule 485.

If appropriate, check the following box:

 

¨ 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:

Advisor, Institutional and Service Shares of the Goldman Sachs High Quality Floating Rate Fund, Goldman Sachs Strategic Income Fund, and Goldman Sachs Multi-Strategy Alternatives Portfolio. Institutional and Service Shares of the Goldman Sachs U.S. Equity Insights Fund, Goldman Sachs Small Cap Equity Insights Fund, Goldman Sachs Strategic Growth Fund, Goldman Sachs Large Cap Value Fund, Goldman Sachs Mid Cap Value Fund, Goldman Sachs Growth Opportunities Fund, Goldman Sachs Strategic International Equity Fund, Goldman Sachs Core Fixed Income Fund, Goldman Sachs Global Trends Allocation Fund and Goldman Sachs Money Market Fund. Service Shares of the Goldman Sachs Equity Index 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. 60 under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 60 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 20th day of May, 2015.

 

GOLDMAN SACHS VARIABLE INSURANCE TRUST
By:  

/s/ Caroline Kraus

Caroline Kraus

  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

James A. McNamara

    President (Chief Executive Officer) and Trustee   May 20, 2015

1Scott M. McHugh

Scott M. McHugh

    Treasurer, Senior Vice President and Principal Financial Officer   May 20, 2015

1Ashok N. Bakhru

Ashok N. Bakhru

    Chairman and Trustee   May 20, 2015

1Kathryn A. Cassidy

Kathryn A. Cassidy

    Trustee   May 20, 2015

1John P. Coblentz, Jr.

John P. Coblentz, Jr.

    Trustee   May 20, 2015

1Diana M. Daniels

Diana M. Daniels

    Trustee   May 20, 2015

1Joseph P. LoRusso

Joseph P. LoRusso

    Trustee   May 20, 2015

1Herbert J. Markley

Herbert J. Markley

    Trustee   May 20, 2015

1Jessica Palmer

Jessica Palmer

    Trustee   May 20, 2015

1Alan A. Shuch

Alan A. Shuch

    Trustee   May 20, 2015

1Richard P. Strubel

Richard P. Strubel

    Trustee   May 20, 2015

1Roy W. Templin

Roy W. Templin

    Trustee   May 20, 2015

1Gregory G. Weaver

Gregory G. Weaver

    Trustee   May 20, 2015

 

    By:  

/s/ Caroline Kraus

Caroline Kraus,

  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 11-12, 2014.

RESOLVED, that the Trustees and Officers of each Trust who may be required to execute any amendments to each Trust’s Registration Statement be, and each hereby is, authorized to execute a power of attorney appointing James A. McNamara, Caroline L. Kraus, Andrew Murphy, Robert Griffith, Matthew Wolfe, and Francesca Mead, 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 and the 1940 Act of each 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.

The undersigned Secretary for the Trust further certifies that the Board duly adopted the following resolution at a meeting of the Board held on December 17, 2014.

RESOLVED, that Gregory G. Weaver and Kathryn A. Cassidy, who may be required to execute any amendments to each Trust’s Registration Statement, be, and each hereby is, authorized to execute a power of attorney appointing James A. McNamara, Caroline L. Kraus, Andrew Murphy, Robert Griffith, Matthew Wolfe, and Francesca Mead, jointly and severally, his or her attorneys-in-fact, each with power of substitution, for Gregory G. Weaver and Kathryn A. Cassidy in any and all capacities to sign the Registration Statement under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 of each 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 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, with Gregory G. Weaver and Kathryn A. Cassidy 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 20, 2015

 

/s/ Caroline Kraus

Caroline Kraus,
Secretary

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