As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 17, 2025.

 

 

 

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. 1502 ☒

and/or

Registration Statement Under the Investment Company Act of 1940 ☐
Amendment No. 1503 ☒

 

Innovator ETFs® Trust

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

200 W. Front 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

320 South Canal Street

Chicago, Illinois 60606

 

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

 

☐ immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
☒ on July 17, 2025 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. 1502

 

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. 1470, as it relates to Innovator Magnificent Seven 10 Buffer ETF – Quarterly (the “Fund”), a series of the Registrant, until July 17, 2025. Parts A, B and C of the Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 1470, filed on April 4, 2025, are incorporated by reference herein.

 

Signatures

 

 

 

Signatures

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”) 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 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 June 17, 2025.

 

  Innovator ETFs® Trust
   
  By: /s/ H. Bruce Bond
    H. Bruce Bond
    President

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, 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, June 17, 2025
H. Bruce Bond   President and Trustee  
       
/s/ Kathy Meyer   Vice President, Treasurer and June 17, 2025
Kathy Meyer   Principal Financial Accounting Officer  
       
      )  
Mark Berg*   Trustee )  
      )    
        By: /s/ H. Bruce Bond
      )    H. Bruce Bond
Joe Stowell*   Trustee )    Attorney-In-Fact
      )    June 17, 2025
           
      )  
Brian J. Wildman*   Trustee )  
      )  

 

*An original power of attorney authorizing H. Bruce Bond 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.