485BPOS 1 a11-8665_17485bpos.htm 485BPOS

 

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 12, 2011

Securities Act File No. 2-10685

Investment Company Act File No. 811-214

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549.

 

FORM N-1A

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933    x

 

Pre-Effective Amendment No.     o

 

Post-Effective Amendment No. 133     x

 

and/or

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940    x

 

Amendment No.  x

(Check Appropriate Box or Boxes)

 

 

SENTINEL GROUP FUNDS, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

National Life Drive

Montpelier, Vermont 05604

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

 

(802) 229-7410

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code)

 

 

Lisa Muller, Esq.

 

Copy to:

c/o Sentinel Asset Management, Inc.

 

John A. MacKinnon, Esq.

National Life Drive

 

Sidley Austin LLP

Montpelier, Vermont 05604

 

787 Seventh Avenue

 

New York, New York 10019

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

 

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

x     immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

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

o       on December 15, 2010 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.

 

 

Title of Securities Being Registered: Common Stock, par value $.01 per share.

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act and the Investment Company Act, the Registrant certifies that it meets all requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act and that it has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Montpelier and State of Vermont, on the 12th day of April 2011.

 

 

 

SENTINEL GROUP FUNDS, INC. (Registrant)

 

 

 

 

   By:

/s/ Christian W. Thwaites

 

   Christian W. Thwaites

 

   President & Chief Executive Officer

 

Signature

 

Title

 

Date

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ Christian W. Thwaites

 

 

 

 

Christian W. Thwaites

 

Director, President & Chief Executive Officer

 

April 12, 2011

 

 

(Principal Executive Officer)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s/ John Birch

 

Chief Financial Officer

 

 

John Birch

 

(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 

April 12, 2011

 

 

 

 

 

Thomas H. MacLeay*

 

Chair (Director)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deborah G. Miller*

 

Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

John Raisian*

 

Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nancy L. Rose*

 

Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Richard H. Showalter, Jr.*

 

Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Susan M. Sterne*

 

Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Angela E. Vallot*

 

Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pantanjali Varadarajan*

 

Director

 

 

 

* Christian W. Thwaites signs this document pursuant to the power of attorney filed with Post Effective Amendment No. 124 to the Registration Statement filed on Form N-1A on January 25, 2010.

 

/s/ Christian W. Thwaites

 

 

 

April 12, 2011

Christian W. Thwaites

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Index No.

 

Description of Exhibit

 

 

 

EX-101.INS

 

XBRL Instance Document

EX-101.SCH

 

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document

EX-101.CAL

 

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase

EX-101.DEF

 

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase

EX-101.LAB

 

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase

EX-101.PRE

 

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase