As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 17, 2022   
 
Securities Act File No. 333-253222 
Investment Company File No. 811-23643 
   
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. 11   
and/or   
REGISTRATION STATEMENT   
UNDER   
 
THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940   
Amendment No. 12   
(Check appropriate box or boxes)   
 
   
 
PUTNAM ETF TRUST   
(Exact name of Registrant as specified in its charter)   
    
100 Federal Street   
Boston, MA 02110   
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)   
Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code: (617) 292-1000   
   
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 

 

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

 

[     ]  Immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) 
 
[ X ]   On December 20, 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 ESG Core Bond ETF, Putnam ESG High Yield ETF, Putnam ESG Ultra Short ETF, Putnam PanAgora ESG Emerging Markets Equity ETF and Putnam PanAgora ESG International Equity ETF


 

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 11 is being filed pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), solely to designate December 20, 2022, as the new effective date for Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 filed pursuant to Rule 485(a) under the Securities Act on June 8, 2022. The effectiveness of Post-Effective Amendment No. 4 was previously delayed by Post-Effective Amendment No. 6, which was filed on August 18, 2022, Amendment No. 8 to the Trust’s Registration Statement under the 1940 Act, which was filed on September 19, 2022, and Amendment No. 10 to the Trust’s Registration Statement under the 1940 Act, which was filed on October 19, 2022. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 11 is not intended to amend or supersede any information contained in Post-Effective Amendment No. 4.

This Post-Effective Amendment relates solely to the Registrant’s Putnam ESG Core Bond ETF, Putnam ESG High Yield ETF, Putnam ESG Ultra Short ETF, Putnam PanAgora ESG Emerging Markets Equity ETF and Putnam PanAgora ESG International Equity 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. 4 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. 5 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 June 8, 2022 (“Amendment No. 4/5”).

Part B. INFORMATION REQUIRED IN A STATEMENT OF ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Part B is incorporated by reference to Part B of Amendment No. 4/5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A filed with the SEC on June 8, 2022.

Part C. OTHER INFORMATION

Part C is incorporated by reference to Part C of Amendment No. 4/5 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A filed with the SEC on June 8, 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 17th day of November, 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 
November 17, 2022 
 
Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in the Initial 
Registration Statement of the Trust on February 17, 2021.