Form 485BXT PRUDENTIAL INVESTMENT

  

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 3, 2025 

  

  

Securities Act Registration No. 333-43491
Investment Company Act Registration No. 811-08587 

  

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549 

  

FORM N-1A 

  

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
PRE-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO.
POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT NO. 50 (X) 

  

and/or 

  

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
AMENDMENT NO. 51 (X)
Check appropriate box or boxes 

  

Prudential Investment Portfolios 18
Exact name of registrant as specified in charter 

  

655 Broad Street, 6th Floor
Newark, New Jersey 07102
Address of Principal Executive Offices including Zip Code 

  

1-800-225-1852
Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code 

  

Andrew R. French
655 Broad Street, 6th Floor
Newark, New Jersey 07102
Name and Address of Agent for Service 

  

It is proposed that this filing will become effective: 

  

__ immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
X on January 29, 2025 pursuant to paragraph (b)
__ 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
__ on (____) 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:
X this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment. 

  

Explanatory Note 

  

Pursuant to Rule 485(b)(1)(iii) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 50 to the Registration Statement for Prudential Investment Portfolios 18 (the “Registrant”) is being filed for the purpose of delaying, until January 29, 2025, the effectiveness of the registration statement with respect to PGIM Jennison Energy Infrastructure Fund, filed as Post-Effective Amendment No. 49 on November 6, 2024, pursuant to Rule 485(a)(1). Post-Effective Amendment No. 49 was scheduled to become effective on January 6, 2025. 

  

Accordingly, the contents of Post-Effective Amendment No. 49 consisting of the Part A, Part B, and Part C with respect to PGIM Jennison Energy Infrastructure Fund, are hereby incorporated by reference herein. 

 

  

  

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 to the Registration Statement under Rule 485(b)(1)(iii) 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, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Newark, and State of New Jersey, on January 3, 2025. 

  

Prudential Investment Portfolios 18 

  

  

  

* _____________________ 

Stuart S. Parker, President 

  

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated. 

  

  

 

  

  

  

  

  

 

  

  

  

  

POWER OF ATTORNEY
for the PGIM Open End Fund Complex 

  

The undersigned, directors/ trustees and/or officers of each of the registered investment companies listed in Appendix A hereto, hereby authorize Andrew French, Claudia DiGiacomo, Melissa Gonzalez, Patrick McGuinness, Debra Rubano, George Hoyt and Devan Goolsby or any of them, as attorney-in-fact, to sign on his or her behalf in the capacities indicated (and not in such person’s personal individual capacity for personal financial or estate planning), the Registration Statement on Form N-1A, filed for such registered investment company or any amendment thereto (including any pre-effective or post-effective amendments) and any and all supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, including Form N-PX, Forms 3, 4 and 5 for or on behalf of each registered investment company listed in Appendix A or any current or future series thereof, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto, with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

  

This Power of Attorney may be executed in multiple counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but which taken together shall constitute one instrument. 

  

  

 

  

  

  

  

APPENDIX A 

  

Prudential Government Money Market Fund, Inc.
The Prudential Investment Portfolios, Inc.
Prudential Investment Portfolios 2
Prudential Investment Portfolios 3
Prudential Investment Portfolios Inc. 14
Prudential Investment Portfolios 4
Prudential Investment Portfolios 5
Prudential Investment Portfolios 6
Prudential National Muni Fund, Inc.
Prudential Jennison Blend Fund, Inc.
Prudential Jennison Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc.
Prudential Investment Portfolios 7
Prudential Investment Portfolios 8
Prudential Jennison Small Company Fund, Inc.
Prudential Investment Portfolios 9
Prudential World Fund, Inc.
Prudential Investment Portfolios, Inc. 10
Prudential Jennison Natural Resources Fund, Inc.
Prudential Global Total Return Fund, Inc.
Prudential Investment Portfolios 12
Prudential Investment Portfolios, Inc. 15
Prudential Investment Portfolios 16
Prudential Investment Portfolios, Inc. 17
Prudential Investment Portfolios 18
Prudential Sector Funds, Inc.
Prudential Short-Term Corporate Bond Fund, Inc.
The Target Portfolio Trust
PGIM ETF Trust
PGIM Global High Yield Fund, Inc.
PGIM High Yield Bond Fund, Inc
PGIM Short Duration High Yield Opportunities Fund 

Ms. Alberding does not serve as a Trustee of the PGIM Short Duration High Yield Opportunities Fund. 

Ms. Bynoe and Ms. Hodrick do not serve as Directors of PGIM High Yield Bond Fund, Inc. and PGIM Global High Yield Fund, Inc. or as Trustees of PGIM Short Duration High Yield Opportunities Fund. 

  

  

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