Filed Pursuant to Rule 485(b)

Registration No. 333-160877

811-22320

 

 

 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

 

  FORM N-1A   
 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

   x    
  Pre-Effective Amendment No.        
  Post-Effective Amendment No. 89    x    
  and   
 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940

   x    
  Amendment No. 92    x    

 

 

RUSSELL EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS TRUST

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

 

1301 Second Avenue, 18 th Floor, Seattle, Washington   98101
(Address of Principal Executive Office)   (ZIP Code)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including area code: 206/505-7877

 

 

 

Mary Beth Rhoden Albaneze

Russell Exchange Traded Funds Trust

1301 Second Avenue, 18 th Floor

Seattle, Washington 98101

206-505-4846

 

John V. O’Hanlon, Esq.

Dechert LLP

One International Place, 40th Floor

100 Oliver Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02110-2605

617-728-7100

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

 

Approximate date of commencement of proposed public offering: As soon as practical after the effective date of the Registration Statement.

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

 

  ¨ immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
  x on December 16, 2013 pursuant to paragraph (b)
  ¨ 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
  ¨ on                     , 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:

 

  x this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

 

 

 

PART A, PART B and PART C

The Registrant hereby incorporates in its entirety each of Part A, Part B and Part C of Post-Effective Amendment No. 6 to Registration Nos. 333-160877 and 811-22320 into, and hereby designates each such Part as constituting in its entirety Part A, Part B and Part C, respectively, of Post-Effective Amendment No. 89 to Registration Nos. 333-160877 and 811-22320. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 89 is being filed to extend the effective date of previously filed Post-Effective Amendment No. 6. The Registrant’s updated Prospectus, Statement of Additional Information and Other Information will be filed pursuant to Rule 485(b) on or before December 16, 2013.

 

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant, Russell Exchange Traded Funds Trust, certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 485(b) of the Securities Act of 1933. The Registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 89 to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereto duly authorized, in the City of Seattle, and State of Washington, on this 15th day of November, 2013.

 

RUSSELL EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS TRUST
Registrant
By:  

*

  Sandra Cavanaugh, President

 

/s/ Jessica Gates

* By Jessica Gates
Attorney-in-fact

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 November 15, 2013.

 

Signatures

      

Signatures

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*

Sandra Cavanaugh, President and      Mark E. Swanson, Treasurer and
Chief Executive Officer      Chief Accounting Officer

*

    

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Thaddas L. Alston, Trustee      Jonathan Fine, Trustee

*

    

*

Kristianne Blake, Trustee      Raymond P. Tennison, Jr., Trustee

*

    

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Cheryl Burgermeister, Trustee      Jack R. Thompson, Trustee

*

    

*

Daniel P. Connealy, Trustee      Julie W. Weston, Trustee

 

/s/ Jessica Gates

*By Jessica Gates
Attorney-in-fact

 

* Executed pursuant to powers of attorney filed with Post-Effective Amendment No. 87 to Registration Statement Nos. 333-160877 and 811-22320.