Form 485BPOS LINCOLN LIFE VARIABLE

October 23, 2025 4:42 PM EDT
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 23, 2025
1933 Act Registration No. 333-214143
1940 Act Registration No. 811-08517
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM N-4
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 32
and
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
AMENDMENT NO. 1197
Lincoln Life Variable Annuity Account N
(Exact Name of Registrant)
Lincoln InvestmentSolutionsSM RIA
THE LINCOLN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY
(Name of Depositor)
1301 South Harrison Street
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802
(Address of Depositor’s Principal Executive Offices)
Depositor’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (260) 455-2000
Craig T. Beazer, Esquire
The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company
150 North Radnor Chester Road
Radnor, PA 19087
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
Copy to:
Jassmin McIver-Jones, Esquire
The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company
1301 South Harrison Street
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46802
Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering: Continuous
It is proposed that this filing will become effective:
/X/ immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485
/ / on May 1, 2025, pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485
/ / 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485
/ / on __________, pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485
Title of Securities being registered:
Interests in a separate account under individual flexible payment deferred variable annuity contracts.

 

THE LINCOLN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY

Lincoln Life Variable Annuity Account N

 

Lincoln InvestmentSolutionsSM RIA

 

 

Supplement dated October 23, 2025 to the Prospectus dated May 1, 2025

 

This Supplement outlines important changes to your investment options under your individual annuity contract. These changes are related to:

 

a) Appendix A – Funds Available Under The Contract; and

b) Appendix B – Investment Requirements.

 

All other provisions outlined in your variable annuity prospectus, as supplemented, remain unchanged.

 

Appendix A – Funds Available Under the Contract: The following fund will be added to your list of available fund options and available on or about November 17, 2025.

 

Investment
Objective
Fund and Adviser/Sub-adviser Current
Expenses

Average Annual Total

Returns (as of 12/31/2024)

1 Year 5 Year 10 Year
Long-term capital appreciation. LVIP American Funds Vanguard Active Passive
Growth Fund – Service Class

advised by Lincoln Financial Investment
Corporation
0.98% N/A N/A N/A

 

The Board of Trustees of Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust recently approved a new sub-advisory agreement between Lincoln Financial Investments Corporation and Nomura Investments Fund Advisers, a series of Nomura Investment Management Business Trust (“NIFA”) and a new sub-sub-advisory agreement between NIFA and Macquarie Investment Management Global Limited (together, the “New Sub-Advisory Agreements”). The New Sub-Advisory Agreements were approved in connection with the acquisition of Macquarie Asset Management’s U.S. and European public investments business (the “Acquisition”). The New Sub-Advisory Agreements will become effective on the closing date of the Acquisition, which is expected to be on or about November 1, 2025 (the “Acquisition Date”). As of the Acquisition Date, the following fund names will be revised accordingly. The Acquisition will not affect the fees or expenses of the funds.

 

Former Fund Name

New Fund Name

LVIP Macquarie Diversified Floating Rate Fund LVIP Nomura Diversified Floating Rate Fund
LVIP Macquarie High Yield Fund LVIP Nomura High Yield Fund
LVIP Macquarie SMID Cap Core Fund LVIP Nomura SMID Cap Core Fund

 

All other information about the funds, including principal investment strategies, can be found in the fund’s prospectus.

 

Appendix B – Investment Requirements: If you have elected a Living Benefit Rider, you may be subject to the Investment Requirements outlined in the prospectus, according to which Living Benefit Rider you own and when you elected that rider. Please refer to your prospectus to determine if you are subject to Investment Requirements. The changes outlined below are effective for November 17, 2025, and are added to the existing Investment Requirements in your prospectus. All other provisions of Investment Requirements remain unchanged.

 

Please note that your Contract may not offer every rider impacted by these requirements.

 

 

 

 

Applicable Riders/Investment
Requirement Option
Purchase Date Range Investment Requirement Change

o        Lincoln ProtectedPay Select Core® and Estate LockSM

o        Lincoln ProtectedPay Select Core®

o        Lincoln ProtectedPay Select Plus®

o        Lincoln ProtectedPay Select Max®

o        Lincoln Market Select® Advantage

o        Lincoln Max 6SM Advantage

o        Lincoln Wealth PassSM

o        4LATER® Select Advantage

o        i4LIFE® Advantage Select Guaranteed Income Benefit*

o        Transitions from a Prior Rider to i4LIFE® Advantage Select Guaranteed Income Benefit

On or after August 29, 2016.

LVIP American Funds Vanguard Active Passive Growth Fund will be added to Group 2 (investments cannot exceed 80% of Contract Value or Account Value) and eligible for 100% allocation of Contract Value or Account Value.

*For riders purchased prior to May 21, 2018, and on and after August 19, 2024.

 

You can obtain additional information by contacting your registered representative, online at www.lfg.com/vaprospectus, or by sending an email request to [email protected].

 

Please retain this Supplement for future reference.

 

 

 

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Part A
The Prospectus for the Lincoln InvestmentSolutionsSM RIA variable annuity contract, as supplemented, is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 30 (File No. 333-214143) filed on April 22, 2025, and to the definitive 497 Filing filed on May 1, 2025.
Part B
The Statement of Additional Information for the Lincoln InvestmentSolutionsSM RIA variable annuity contract, including the consolidated financial statements of Lincoln Life and the financial statements of Lincoln Life Variable Annuity Account N, is incorporated herein by reference to Post-Effective Amendment No. 30 (File No. 333-214143) filed on April 22, 2025, and to the definitive 497 Filing filed on May 1, 2025.

Lincoln Life Variable Annuity Account N
PART C - OTHER INFORMATION
Item 27. Exhibits
(b) Not applicable

B-2

(h) Fund Participation Agreements and Amendments between The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and:
B-3

(j) Rule 22c-2 Agreements between The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company and:
(m) Not applicable
(n) Not applicable
(o) Not applicable
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Item 28. Directors and Officers of the Depositor
The following list contains the officers and directors of The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company who are engaged directly or indirectly in activities relating to Lincoln Life Variable Annuity Account N as well as the contracts. The list also shows The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company's executive officers.
Name
Positions and Offices with Depositor
Craig T. Beazer*
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Director
Vacant
Director
Adam M. Cohen*
Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Treasurer
Ellen G. Cooper*
President and Director
Stephen B. Harris*
Senior Vice President and Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Christopher M. Neczypor*
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director
Nancy A. Smith*
Senior Vice President and Secretary
Joseph D. Spada**
Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer for Separate Accounts
Eric B. Wilmer***
Assistant Vice President and Director
*Principal business address is 150 N. Radnor-Chester Road, Radnor, PA 19087
B-4

**Principal business address is 350 Church Street, Hartford, CT 06103
***Principal business address is 1301 South Harrison Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46802
Item 29. Persons Controlled by or Under Common Control with the Depositor or Registrant
Item 30. Indemnification
a) Brief description of indemnification provisions.
In general, Article VII of the By-Laws of The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company (Lincoln Life or Company) provides that Lincoln Life will indemnify certain persons against expenses, judgments and certain other specified costs incurred by any such person if he/she is made a party or is threatened to be made a party to a suit or proceeding because he/she was a director, officer, or employee of Lincoln Life, as long as he/she acted in good faith and in a manner he/she reasonably believed to be in the best interests of, or act opposed to the best interests of, Lincoln Life. Certain additional conditions apply to indemnification in criminal proceedings.
In particular, separate conditions govern indemnification of directors, officers, and employees of Lincoln Life in connection with suits by, or in the right of, Lincoln Life.
Please refer to Article VII of the By-Laws of Lincoln Life (Exhibit no. f(b) hereto) for the full text of the indemnification provisions. Indemnification is permitted by, and is subject to the requirements of, Indiana law.
b) Undertaking pursuant to Rule 484 of Regulation C under the Securities Act of 1933:
Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the Registrant pursuant to the provisions described in Item 28(a) above or otherwise, the Registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer, or controlling person of the Registrant in the successful defense of any such action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.
Item 31. Principal Underwriter
(a) Lincoln Financial Distributors, Inc. (“LFD”) currently serves as Principal Underwriter for: Lincoln National Variable Annuity Account C; Lincoln National Flexible Premium Variable Life Account D; Lincoln National Variable Annuity Account E; Lincoln National Flexible Premium Variable Life Account F; Lincoln National Flexible Premium Variable Life Account G; Lincoln National Variable Annuity Account H; Lincoln Life & Annuity Variable Annuity Account H; Lincoln Life Flexible Premium Variable Life Account J; Lincoln Life Flexible Premium Variable Life Account K; Lincoln National Variable Annuity Account L; Lincoln Life & Annuity Variable Annuity Account L; Lincoln Life Flexible Premium Variable Life Account M; Lincoln Life & Annuity Flexible Premium Variable Life Account M; Lincoln Life Variable Annuity Account N; Lincoln New York Account N for Variable Annuities; Lincoln Life Variable Annuity Account Q; Lincoln Life Flexible Premium Variable Life Account R; LLANY Separate Account R for Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance; Lincoln Life Flexible Premium Variable Life Account S; LLANY Separate Account S for Flexible Premium Variable Life Insurance; Lincoln Life Variable Annuity Account T; Lincoln Life Variable Annuity Account W; and Lincoln Life Flexible Premium Variable Life Account Y and Lincoln Life & Annuity Flexible Premium Variable Life Account Y; Lincoln Life Variable Annuity Account JF-H; Lincoln Life Variable Annuity Account JF-I; Lincoln Life Flexible Premium Variable Life Account JF-A; Lincoln Life Flexible Premium Variable Life Account JF-C; Lincoln Life Variable Annuity Account JL-A; Lincoln Life & Annuity Flexible Premium Variable Life Account JA-B; Lincoln Variable Insurance Products Trust; Lincoln Advisors Trust.
(b) Officers and Directors of Lincoln Financial Distributors, Inc.:
B-5

Name
Positions and Offices with Underwriter
Adam M. Cohen*
Senior Vice President and Treasurer
Jason M. Gibson**
Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer
Claire H. Hanna*
Secretary
John C. Kennedy*
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
Jared M. Nepa*
Senior Vice President and Director
Timothy J. Seifert Sr*
Senior Vice President and Director
*Principal business address is 150 N. Radnor-Chester Road, Radnor, PA 19087
**Principal business address is 1301 South Harrison Street, Fort Wayne, IN 46802
(c) N/A
Item 32. Location of Accounts and Records
This information is provided in the Registrant’s most recent report on Form N-CEN.
Item 33. Management Services
Not Applicable.
Item 34. Fee Representation
Lincoln Life represents that the fees and charges deducted under the contracts, in the aggregate, are reasonable in relation to the services rendered, the expenses expected to be incurred, and the risks assumed by Lincoln Life.
B-6

 

SIGNATURES

 

(a)As required by the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certifies that it meets the requirements of Securities Act Rule 485(b) for effectiveness of these registration statements and has caused these Post-Effective Amendments to the registration statements to be signed on its behalf, in the City of Fort Wayne, and the State of Indiana on this 16th day of October, 2025 at 11:39 am.

 

Lincoln Life Variable Annuity Account N

(Registrants)

 

  By: /s/ Delson R. Campbell  
  Delson R. Campbell
  Senior Vice President, The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company

 

Signed on its behalf, in the City of Hartford, and the State of Connecticut on this 16th day of October, 2025 at 12:28 pm.

 

The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company

(Depositor)

 

  By: /s/ Michelle L. Grindle  
  Michelle L. Grindle
  (Signature-Officer of Depositor)
Vice President, The Lincoln National Life Insurance Company

 

Lincoln Life Variable Annuity Account N (File No. 811-08517; CIK: 0001048606)

 

333-36316 (Amendment No. 102) 333-138190 (Amendment No. 73) 333-186894 (Amendment No. 48)
333-36304 (Amendment No. 90) 333-170529 (Amendment No. 47) 333-212680 (Amendment No. 29
333-40937 (Amendment No. 96) 333-170897 (Amendment No. 51) 333-214143 (Amendment No. 32)
333-61554 (Amendment No. 96) 333-172328 (Amendment No. 51) 333-236907 (Amendment No. 15)
333-135039 (Amendment No. 62) 333-181612 (Amendment No. 44)  

 

(b)As required by the Securities Act of 1933, these Amendments to the registration statements have been signed by the following persons in their capacities indicated on October 16, 2025 at 11:39 am.

 

Signature   Title
     
*/s/ Ellen G. Cooper   President and Director
Ellen G. Cooper   (Principal Executive Officer)
     
* /s/ Christopher M. Neczypor   Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Director  
Christopher M. Neczypor    
     
*/s/ Craig T. Beazer   Executive Vice President and Director
Craig T. Beazer    
     
*/s/ Adam M. Cohen   Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal
Adam M. Cohen   Accounting Officer)
     
*/s/ Eric B. Wilmer   Assistant Vice President and Director
Eric B. Wilmer    
     
* By        /s/ Delson R. Campbell, Pursuant to a Power of Attorney
Delson R. Campbell

 

 

 

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