Form 485BXT SPROTT FUNDS TRUST

 

 

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 17, 2024

 

Securities Act File No. 333-227545

Investment Company Act File No. 811-23382

 

UNITED STATES 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM N-1A 

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

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	Pre-Effective Amendment No.		☐
	Post-Effective Amendment No. 51		☒

and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940

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Amendment No. 53

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SPROTT FUNDS TRUST

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

200 Bay Street, Suite 2600, 

Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J2J1 

(Address of Principal Executive Office) 

 

416-943-8099 

(Registrant’s Telephone Number)

  

The Corporation Trust Company

Corporation Trust Center 

New Castle County

Wilmington, DE 19801 

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

Copies of communications to: 

 

Thomas W. Ulrich 

President 

Sprott Funds Trust 

320 Post Road, Suite 230 

Darien, CT 06820

 

Bibb L. Strench, Esq. 

Thompson Hine LLP 

1919 M Street, N.W., Suite 700 

Washington, D.C. 20036-1600

 

It is proposed that this filing will become effective:

☐	Immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
☒	On December 20, 2024 pursuant to paragraph (b)
☐	60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
☐	75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
☐	On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
☐	On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.

If appropriate, check the following box: 

☒	This post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment

EXPLANATORY NOTE

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 51 to the Registration Statement on Form N-1A for Sprott Funds Trust (the “Trust”) is being filed pursuant to paragraph (b)(1)(iii) of Rule 485 under the Securities Act of 1933 (the “1933 Act”) solely for the purpose of delaying until December 20, 2024 the effectiveness of the registration statement for the Sprott Silver Miners ETF, filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 31 (“PEA No. 31”) with the Commission via EDGAR Accession No. 0001999371-24-007337 on June 11, 2024, pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485 under the 1933 Act. Parts A, B and C of PEA No. 31 are 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 registration statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Darien, and State of Connecticut, on the 17^th Day of December, 2024

	Sprott Funds Trust
	By:	/s/ Thomas W. Ulrich
	Name:	Thomas W. Ulrich
	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 December 17, 2024.

Signature		Title		Date
/s/ Thomas W. Ulrich		President		December 17, 2024
Thomas W. Ulrich
*		Interested Trustee		December 17, 2024
John Ciampaglia
*		Trustee		December 17, 2024
Michael W. Clark
*		Trustee		December 17, 2024
Peyton T. Muldoon
*		Trustee		December 17, 2024
James R. Pierce Jr.
*		Trustee		December 17, 2024
Leslie Barrett
*		Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer		December 17, 2024
Varinder Bhathal

 

*By:

/s/ Thomas W. Ulrich

* Thomas W. Ulrich, pursuant to a power of attorney filed on November 22, 2024 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement in Post-Effective Amendment No. 47 on Form N-1A.

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