-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, UeHJ7o0KK/D4gWrnLdqiazMfIw9slREIGDHSUQauCZdYeHlimaCpWzmTS0D36ku2 UD8OSw75y+pg1PmP7b4Btg== 0001104659-08-040640.txt : 20080618 0001104659-08-040640.hdr.sgml : 20080618 20080618135737 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001104659-08-040640 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 485BXT PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20080618 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20080618 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SPA ETF Trust CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001393521 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 485BXT SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-144856 FILM NUMBER: 08905329 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 31 West 62nd Street CITY: New York STATE: NY ZIP: 10019 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 31 West 62nd Street CITY: New York STATE: NY ZIP: 10019 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: SPA ETF Trust CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001393521 IRS NUMBER: 000000000 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 485BXT SEC ACT: 1940 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 811-22103 FILM NUMBER: 08905330 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 31 West 62nd Street CITY: New York STATE: NY ZIP: 10019 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 31 West 62nd Street CITY: New York STATE: NY ZIP: 10019 0001393521 S000022380 SPA MARKETGRADER CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY FUND C000064381 SPA MARKETGRADER CONSUMER DISCRETIONARY FUND 0001393521 S000022381 SPA MARKETGRADER CONSUMER STAPLES FUND C000064382 SPA MARKETGRADER CONSUMER STAPLES FUND 0001393521 S000022382 SPA MARKETGRADER FINANCIALS FUND C000064383 SPA MARKETGRADER FINANCIALS FUND 0001393521 S000022383 SPA MARKETGRADER HEALTH CARE FUND C000064384 SPA MARKETGRADER HEALTH CARE FUND 485BXT 1 a08-7490_5485bxt.htm 485BXT

 

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 18, 2008.

 

No. 333-144856

No. 811-22103

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

 

 

FORM N-1A

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

o

 

 

 

 

 

Pre-Effective Amendment No.

 

o

 

Post-Effective Amendment No. 18

 

x
and/or

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY
ACT OF 1940

 

 

Amendment No. 19

 

x

 

(Check appropriate box or boxes)

 

 

SPA ETF TRUST

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

Tower 49

12 East 49th Street

New York, New York 10017

(Address of Principal Executive Office)

 

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code:  1-800-772-3831

Antony Peter Drain

SPA ETF, Inc.

Tower 49

12 East 49th Street

New York, New York 10017

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

With a copy to:

Stuart M. Strauss

Clifford Chance US LLP

31 West 52nd Street

New York, NY 10019

 

APPROXIMATE DATE OF PROPOSED PUBLIC OFFERING:

 

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

o  immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485.

x  on July 17, 2008 pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485.

o  60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485.

o  on [date] pursuant to paragraph (a) of Rule 485.

o  75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.

o  on [date] pursuant to paragraph (a) of Rule 485.

 

 


 

The sole purpose of this filing is to delay the effectiveness of the Trust’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 to its Registration Statement until July 17, 2008. Parts A, B and C of Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 under the Securities Act of 1933 and No. 7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, filed on March 7, 2008, are incorporated by reference herein.

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Investment Company Act, the Fund has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of New York and State of New York, on the 18th day of June, 2008.

 

 

SPA ETF TRUST

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By:

/s/ Antony Peter Drain

 

 

Title: Antony Peter Drain, President

 

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this registration statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities indicated on the dates indicated.

 

SIGNATURE

 

TITLE

 

DATE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Joseph Stefanelli*

 

Trustee

 

June 18, 2008

Joseph Stefanelli

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Robert Tull*

 

Trustee

 

June 18, 2008

Robert Tull

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Antony Peter Drain

 

Trustee and President

 

June 18, 2008

Antony Peter Drain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Christopher Lanza*

 

Chief Financial Officer and

 

June 18, 2008

Christopher Lanza

 

Treasurer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*By:

/s/ Antony Peter Drain

 

 

 

 

 

Antony Peter Drain

 

 

 

 

 

Attorney-in-Fact

 

 

 

 

 

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