As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 28, 2021.

 

1933 Act Registration No. 333-146827

1940 Act Registration No. 811-22135

 

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. 723 ☒
and/or
Registration Statement Under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ☐
Amendment No. 724 ☒

 

Innovator ETFs Trust

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

109 North Hale Street

Wheaton, Illinois 60187

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code: (800) 208-5212

Corporation Service Company

251 Little Falls Drive

Wilmington, DE 19808

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

Copy to:

Morrison C. Warren, Esq.

Chapman and Cutler LLP

111 West Monroe Street

Chicago, Illinois 60603

 

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

 

☐ immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

☒ on October 7, 2021 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) 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.

 

 
 

 

Contents of Post-Effective Amendment No. 723

 

This Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement comprises the following papers and contents:

 

The Facing Sheet

 

The sole purpose of this filing is to delay the effectiveness of the Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 693, as it relates to Innovator Laddered Fund of U.S. Equity Power Buffer ETFs™ (the “Fund”), a series of the Registrant, until October 7, 2021. Parts A, B and C of the Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 693 under the Securities Act of 1933, filed on July 16, 2021, are incorporated by reference herein.

 

Signatures

 

 
 

 

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 of 1933 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Wheaton, and State of Illinois, on September 28, 2021.

 

 

    Innovator ETFs Trust
     
     
 

By:

/s/ H. Bruce Bond
    H. Bruce Bond
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 and on the date indicated:

 

Signature

  

Title

  

Date
         

/s/ H. Bruce Bond

  

Chief Executive Officer, President and Trustee

  

September 28, 2021

H. Bruce Bond

        
         

/s/ John Southard

  

Vice President, Treasurer and Principal Financial Accounting Officer

  

September 28, 2021

John Southard

        
         

Mark Berg*

  

 

Trustee     

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          By:  /s/ H. Bruce Bond          

Joe Stowell*

  

 

Trustee    

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H. Bruce Bond
Attorney-In-Fact
   

 

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September 28, 2021
           

Brian J. Wildman*

  

 

Trustee    

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*

An original power of attorney authorizing H. Bruce Bond and John Southard to execute this Registration Statement, and amendments thereto, for each of the trustees of the Registrant on whose behalf this Registration Statement is filed, were previously executed, filed as an exhibit and are incorporated by reference herein.