485BPOS 1 a13-4296_5485bpos.htm POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT FILED PURSUANT TO SECURITIES ACT RULE 485(B)

 

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 20, 2013

 

1933 Act File No. 2-96738

 

1940 Act File No. 811-4253

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C.  20549

 


 

FORM N-1A

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 52

 

AND

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER

THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940

 

AMENDMENT NO. 53

 

MFS® SERIES TRUST XV

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02199

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code: 617-954-5000

 

Susan S. Newton, Massachusetts Financial Services Company

111 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts  02199

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

APPROXIMATE DATE OF PROPOSED PUBLIC OFFERING:

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

 

x immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

o on [date] pursuant to paragraph (b)

o 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(i)

o on [date] pursuant to paragraph (a)(i)

o 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(ii)

o on [date] pursuant to paragraph (a)(ii) 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

 

 

 



 

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 Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereto duly authorized, in the City of Boston and The Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the 20th day of March, 2013.

 

 

MFS® SERIES TRUST XV

 

 

 

By:

JOHN M. CORCORAN*

 

Name:

John M. Corcoran

 

Title:

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 March 20, 2013.

 

SIGNATURE

 

TITLE

 

 

 

JOHN M. CORCORAN*

 

President (Principal Executive Officer)

John M. Corcoran

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DAVID L. DILORENZO*

 

Principal Financial and Accounting Officer

David L. DiLorenzo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROBERT E. BUTLER*

 

Trustee

Robert E. Butler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAUREEN R. GOLDFARB*

 

Trustee

Maureen R. Goldfarb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DAVID H. GUNNING*

 

Trustee

David H. Gunning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WILLIAM R. GUTOW*

 

Trustee

William R. Gutow

 

 

 



 

MICHAEL HEGARTY*

 

Trustee

Michael Hegarty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOHN P. KAVANAUGH*

 

Trustee

John P. Kavanaugh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROBERT J. MANNING*

 

Trustee

Robert J. Manning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J. DALE SHERRATT*

 

Trustee

J. Dale Sherratt

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LAURIE J. THOMSEN*

 

Trustee

Laurie J. Thomsen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROBERT W. UEK*

 

Trustee

Robert W. Uek

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*By:

SUSAN S. NEWTON

 

 

Name:

Susan S. Newton

 

 

 

as Attorney-in-fact

 

 

 

 

 

 

Executed by Susan S. Newton on behalf of those indicated pursuant to Power of Attorney, dated December 7, 2012 (Trustees) and a Power of Attorney, dated December 7, 2012 (Corcoran) (DiLorenzo); filed herewith.

 



 

MFS Series Trust I

MFS Series Trust II

MFS Series Trust III

MFS Series Trust IV

MFS Series Trust V

MFS Series Trust VI

MFS Series Trust VII

MFS Series Trust VIII

MFS Series Trust IX

MFS Series Trust X

MFS Series Trust XI

MFS Series Trust XII

MFS Series Trust XIII

MFS Series Trust XIV

MFS Series Trust XV

MFS Series Trust XVI

Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Fund

Massachusetts Investors Trust

MFS Institutional Trust

MFS Municipal Series Trust

MFS Variable Insurance Trust

MFS Variable Insurance Trust II

MFS Variable Insurance Trust III

MFS California Municipal Fund

MFS Charter Income Trust

MFS Government Markets Income Trust

MFS High Income Municipal Trust

MFS High Yield Municipal Trust

MFS InterMarket Income Trust I

MFS Intermediate High Income Fund

MFS Intermediate Income Trust

MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust

MFS Multimarket Income Trust

MFS Municipal Income Trust

MFS Special Value Trust

 

(each a “Registrant”)

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

The undersigned, a Trustee of each of the above-mentioned Registrants, hereby severally constitutes and appoints Mark N. Polebaum, Susan S. Newton, Christopher R. Bohane, Thomas H. Connors, Brian E. Langenfeld and Susan A. Pereira, and each of them singly, as true and lawful attorneys, with full power to them and each of them to sign for each of the undersigned, in the names of, and in the

 



 

capacities indicated below, any Registration Statement and any and all amendments thereto and to file the same with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the purpose of registering the Registrant as a management investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and/or the shares issued by the Registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 granting unto my said attorneys, and each of them, acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys or any of them may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hand on this 7th day of December, 2012.

 

 

ROBERT E. BUTLER

 

Trustee

Robert E. Butler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MAUREEN R. GOLDFARB

 

Trustee

Maureen R. Goldfarb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DAVID H. GUNNING

 

Trustee

David H. Gunning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WILLIAM R. GUTOW

 

Trustee

William R. Gutow

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MICHAEL HEGARTY

 

Trustee

Michael Hegarty

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

JOHN P. KAVANAUGH

 

Trustee

John P. Kavanaugh

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROBERT J. MANNING

 

Trustee

Robert J. Manning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

J. DALE SHERRATT

 

Trustee

J. Dale Sherratt

 

 

 



 

LAURIE J. THOMSEN

 

Trustee

Laurie J. Thomsen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ROBERT W. UEK

 

Trustee

Robert W. Uek

 

 

 



 

MFS Series Trust I

MFS Series Trust II

MFS Series Trust III

MFS Series Trust IV

MFS Series Trust V

MFS Series Trust VI

MFS Series Trust VII

MFS Series Trust VIII

MFS Series Trust IX

MFS Series Trust X

MFS Series Trust XI

MFS Series Trust XII

MFS Series Trust XIII

MFS Series Trust XIV

MFS Series Trust XV

MFS Series Trust XVI

Massachusetts Investors Growth Stock Fund

Massachusetts Investors Trust

MFS Institutional Trust

MFS Municipal Series Trust

MFS Variable Insurance Trust

MFS Variable Insurance Trust II

MFS Variable Insurance Trust III

MFS California Municipal Fund

MFS Charter Income Trust

MFS Government Markets Income Trust

MFS High Income Municipal Trust

MFS High Yield Municipal Trust

MFS InterMarket Income Trust I

MFS Intermediate High Income Fund

MFS Intermediate Income Trust

MFS Investment Grade Municipal Trust

MFS Multimarket Income Trust

MFS Municipal Income Trust

MFS Special Value Trust

 

(each a “Registrant”)

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

The undersigned, being the President and Principal Executive Officer, and Treasurer and Principal Financial and Accounting Officer, respectively, of each of the above-mentioned Registrants, hereby severally constitutes and appoints Mark N. Polebaum, Susan S. Newton, Christopher R. Bohane,

 



 

Thomas H. Connors, Brian E. Langenfeld and Susan A. Pereira, and each of them singly, as true and lawful attorneys, with full power to them and each of them to sign for each of the undersigned, in the names of, and in the capacities indicated below, any Registration Statement and any and all amendments thereto and to file the same with all exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the purpose of registering the Registrant as a management investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and/or the shares issued by the Registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 granting unto my said attorneys, and each of them, acting alone, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite or necessary or desirable to be done in the premises, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys or any of them may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue thereof.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have hereunto set their hand on this 7th day of December, 2012.

 

 

JOHN M. CORCORAN

 

President (Principal Executive Officer)

John M. Corcoran

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

DAVID L. DILORENZO

 

Principal Financial and Accounting Officer

David L. DiLorenzo

 

 

 



 

MFS SERIES TRUST XV

 

MFS® DIVERSIFIED TARGET RETURN FUND

 

INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

EXHIBIT NO.

 

DESCRIPTION OF EXHIBIT

 

PAGE NO.

 

 

 

 

 

101

 

Risk/Return summary of the fund’s prospectus as an Interactive Data File using eXtensible Business Reporting Language (“XBRL”)