Post-effective Amendment (investment Company, Rule 485(b)) (485bpos)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 17, 2020

1933 Act Registration No. 333-200933

1940 Act Registration No. 811-23013

 

 

 

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. 237		☒

and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940		☒
Amendment No. 240		☒

(Check appropriate box or boxes)

 

 

GOLDMAN SACHS ETF TRUST

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

 

 

200 West Street

New York, New York 10282

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code: [phone]

 

 

CAROLINE L. KRAUS, ESQ.

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

200 West Street

New York, New York 10282

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Copies to:

STEPHEN H. BIER, ESQ.

ALLISON M. FUMAI, ESQ.

Dechert LLP

1095 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10036

 

 

Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering: As soon as practicable 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)

☐	on (date) 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.

Title of Securities Being Registered:

Shares of the Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta^® Emerging Markets Equity ETF, Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta^® Europe Equity ETF, Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta^® International Equity ETF, Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta^® Japan Equity ETF, Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta^® U.S. Large Cap Equity ETF, and Goldman Sachs ActiveBeta^® U.S. Small Cap Equity ETF .

 

 

 

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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 the requirements for effectiveness of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 237 under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 237 to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City and State of New York on the 17^th day of January, 2020.

 

GOLDMAN SACHS ETF TRUST
(A Delaware statutory trust)
By:		/s/ Caroline L. Kraus
		Caroline L. Kraus
		Secretary

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to said Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

 

Name		Title		Date
1James A. McNamara		President (Chief Executive Officer) and Trustee		January 17, 2020
James A. McNamara
1Joseph F. DiMaria Joseph F. DiMaria		Treasurer, Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer		January 17, 2020
1Caroline Dorsa		Trustee		January 17, 2020
Caroline Dorsa
1Linda A. Lang		Trustee		January 17, 2020
Linda A. Lang
1Michael Latham		Trustee		January 17, 2020
Michael Latham
1Lawrence W. Stranghoener		Chairman and Trustee		January 17, 2020
Lawrence W. Stranghoener

 

By:		/s/ Caroline L. Kraus
		Caroline L. Kraus,
		Attorney-In-Fact

 

1	Pursuant to powers of attorney previously filed.

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CERTIFICATE

The undersigned Secretary for Goldman Sachs ETF Trust (the “Trust”) hereby certifies that the Board of Trustees of the Trust duly adopted the following resolution at a meeting of the Board held on September 18, 2019.

RESOLVED, that the Trustees and Officers of the Trust who may be required to execute any amendments to the Trust’s Registration Statement be, and each hereby is, authorized to execute a power of attorney appointing James A. McNamara, Caroline L. Kraus, and Robert Griffith, jointly and severally, their attorneys-in-fact, each with power of substitution, for said Trustees and Officers in any and all capacities to sign the Registration Statement under the Securities Act and the 1940 Act of the Trust and any and all amendments to such Registration Statement, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, the Trustees and Officers hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may do or may have caused to be done by virtue hereof.

Dated: January 17, 2020

 

/s/ Caroline L. Kraus

Caroline L. Kraus,

Secretary

 

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