Form 485BXT Putnam ETF Trust

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 2, 2022

 

Securities Act File No. 333-253222

Investment Company File No. 811-23643

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549
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FORM N-1A

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

		THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933		☒
		Pre-Effective Amendment No.		☐
		Post-Effective Amendment No. 7		☒

and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

		THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940		☒
		Amendment No. 8		☒

(Check appropriate box or boxes)
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PUTNAM ETF TRUST
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)
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100 Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code: (617) 292-1000

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Stephen J. Tate

Putnam ETF Trust

100 Federal Street

Boston, MA 02110

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

Copy to:
Jon S. Rand, Esq.	Stephanie A. Capistron, Esq.
Dechert LLP	Dechert LLP
1095 Avenue of the Americas	One International Place, 40th Floor
New York, New York 10036-6797	100 Oliver Street
	Boston, Massachusetts 02110-2605

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

 

[   ]		Immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
[ X ]		On September 28, 2022 pursuant to paragraph (b)

 

[   ]		60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
[   ]		On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
[   ]		75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
[   ]		On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)

If appropriate, check the following box:

 

[ X ]

this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

 

Title of Securities Being Registered:

 

Shares of the Putnam BDC Income ETF, Putnam BioRevolution ETF, Putnam Emerging Markets ex-China ETF

 

 

 

 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 7 is being filed pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), solely to designate September 28, 2022, as the new effective date for Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 filed pursuant to Rule 485(a) under the Securities Act on May 23, 2022. The effectiveness of Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 was previously delayed by Post-Effective Amendment No. 5, which was filed on August 4, 2022. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 7 is not intended to amend or supersede any information contained in Post-Effective Amendment No. 3.

This Post-Effective Amendment relates solely to the Registrant’s Putnam BDC Income ETF, Putnam BioRevolution ETF, and Putnam Emerging Markets ex-China ETF series. Information contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement relating to any other series of the Registrant is neither amended nor superseded hereby.

 

PUTNAM ETF TRUST

 

Part A. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN A PROSPECTUS

Part A is incorporated by reference to Part A of Post-Effective Amendment No. 3 to the Registration Statement on Form N-1A of Putnam ETF Trust (the “Registrant”) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Amendment No. 4 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) on May 23, 2022 (“Amendment No. 3/4”).

Part B. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN A STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Part B is incorporated by reference to Part B of Amendment No. 3/4 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A filed with the SEC on May 23, 2022.

Part C. OTHER INFORMATION

Part C is incorporated by reference to Part C of Amendment No. 3/4 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A filed with the SEC on May 23, 2022.

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and has duly caused this Amendment to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Boston, and The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 2nd day of September, 2022.

 

 

	Putnam ETF Trust
	By: /s/ Aaron Cooper
	Aaron Cooper, President, Principal Executive Officer and
	Trustee

 

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated:

 

 

 

Signature	Title
/s/ Aaron Cooper
Aaron Cooper	President, Principal Executive Officer and Trustee
/s/ Janet Smith
Janet Smith	Vice President, Principal Financial Officer, Principal
	Accounting Officer and Treasurer
Liaquat Ahamed*	Chair, Trustee
Katinka Domotorffy*	Trustee
Catharine Bond Hill*	Trustee
Mona K. Sutphen*	Trustee
	By: /s/ Stephen J. Tate, as Attorney-in-Fact
	September 2, 2022
	Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in the Initial Registration
	Statement of the Trust on February 17, 2021.

 

 

 

 

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