Form 485BPOS PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST

	As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
	April 13, 2018
	Registration No. 333-515
	811-07513
	SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
	WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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	FORM N-1A
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	REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933	/ X /
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	Pre-Effective Amendment No.	/    /
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	Post-Effective Amendment No. 280	/ X /
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	REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY	/ X /
	ACT OF 1940	----
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	Amendment No. 281	/ X /
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	PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST
	(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
	One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
	(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
	Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code
	(617) 292-1000
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	It is proposed that this filing will become effective
	(check appropriate box)
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/    /	immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
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/ X /	on March 30, 2018 pursuant to paragraph (b)
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/    /	60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a) (1)
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/    /	on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a) (1)
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/    /	75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a) (2)
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/    /	on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a) (2) of Rule 485.
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If appropriate, check the following box:
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/    /	this post-effective amendment designates a new
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	ROBERT T. BURNS, Vice President
	PUTNAM FUNDS TRUST
	One Post Office Square
	Boston, Massachusetts 02109
	(Name and address of agent for service)
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	Copy to:
	BRYAN CHEGWIDDEN, Esquire
	ROPES & GRAY LLP
	1211 Avenue of the Americas
	New York, New York 10036
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This Post-Effective Amendment relates solely to the Registrant's Putnam Emerging Markets Income Fund, Putnam Intermediate-term Municipal Income Fund and Putnam Short-term Municipal Income Fund. Information contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement relating to any other series of the Registrant is neither amended nor superseded hereby.

 

SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, the Registrant 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 13th day of April, 2018.

 

 

Putnam Funds Trust

 

By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, Executive Vice President,

Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison

 

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

Jameson A. Baxter*

Chair, Board of Trustees

 

Kenneth R. Leibler*

Vice Chair, Board of Trustees

 

Robert L. Reynolds*

President and Trustee

 

Jonathan S. Horwitz*

Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison

 

Janet C. Smith*

Vice President, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Assistant Treasurer

 

Liaquat Ahamed*

Trustee

 

Ravi Akhoury*

Trustee

 

Barbara M. Baumann*

Trustee

 

Katinka Domotorffy*

Trustee

 

Catharine Bond Hill*

Trustee

 

Paul L. Joskow*

Trustee

 

Robert E. Patterson*

Trustee

 

George Putnam, III*

Trustee

 

Manoj P. Singh*

Trustee

 

 

 

By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, as Attorney-in-Fact

April 13, 2018

*Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 269 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on October 27, 2017.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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