FlexShares Trust

0001193125-13-374675.txt : 20130923 0001193125-13-374675.hdr.sgml : 20130923 20130923161657 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001193125-13-374675 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 485BXT PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 FILED AS OF DATE: 20130923 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20130923 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FlexShares Trust CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001491978 IRS NUMBER: 272560399 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MD FISCAL YEAR END: 1031 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 485BXT SEC ACT: 1933 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 333-173967 FILM NUMBER: 131110319 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 50 S. LASALLE STREET CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60603 BUSINESS PHONE: (800) 595-9111 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 50 S. LASALLE STREET CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60603 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: NT ETF Trust DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20100513 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FlexShares Trust CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001491978 IRS NUMBER: 272560399 STATE OF INCORPORATION: MD FISCAL YEAR END: 1031 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 485BXT SEC ACT: 1940 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 811-22555 FILM NUMBER: 131110320 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 50 S. LASALLE STREET CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60603 BUSINESS PHONE: (800) 595-9111 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 50 S. LASALLE STREET CITY: CHICAGO STATE: IL ZIP: 60603 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: NT ETF Trust DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 20100513

0001491978 S000042071 FlexShares Global Infrastructure Index Fund

C000130666 FlexShares Global Infrastructure Index Fund

485BXT 1 d601634d485bxt.htm FLEXSHARES TRUST FlexShares Trust

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 23, 2013

Securities Act of 1933 File No. 333-173967

Investment Company Act of 1940 File No. 811-22555

UNITED STATES

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. 37 x

and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 x

Amendment No. 39 x

(Check Appropriate Box or Boxes)

FLEXSHARES TRUST

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

50 South LaSalle Street

Chicago, Illinois 60603

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

800-595-9111

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code)


Name and Address of Agent for Service:		with a copy to:
Diana E. McCarthy, Esq.		Peter K. Ewing
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP		Craig R. Carberry, Esq.
One Logan Square, Ste. 2000		Northern Trust Investments, Inc.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-6996		50 South LaSalle 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, 2013 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.

Explanatory Note

This Post-Effective Amendment No. 37 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on Form N-1A is being filed pursuant to Rule 485(b)(1)(iii) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (“1933 Act”), solely for the purpose of delaying until October 7, 2013 the effectiveness of the Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 34 filed on July 5, 2013, which, pursuant to Rule 485(a)(2) of the 1933 Act, was scheduled to become effective on September 18, 2013. Post-Effective Amendment No. 35 was filed on September 9, 2013 pursuant to Rule 485(b)(1)(iii) to extend the effective date of Post-Effective Amendment No. 34 to September 25, 2013. This Post-Effective Amendment No. 37 incorporates by reference the information contained in Parts A , B and C of Post-Effective Amendment No. 34 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement, filed on July 5, 2013.

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 the requirements for the effectiveness of this Post-Effective Amendment No. 37 pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 37 to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Chicago and State of Illinois on the 23rd day of September 2013.

FLEXSHARES TRUST

By: /s/ Shundrawn A. Thomas

Shundrawn A. Thomas

Trustee and President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 37 to Registrant’s Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.


Name	Title	Date

* Sarah N. Garvey	Trustee	September 23, 2013
Sarah N. Garvey

* Philip G. Hubbard	Trustee	September 23, 2013
Philip G. Hubbard

* Eric T. McKissack	Trustee	September 23, 2013
Eric T. McKissack

/s/ Shundrawn A. Thomas	Trustee and President	September 23, 2013
Shundrawn A. Thomas	(Principal Executive Officer)

/s/ Randal Rein	Treasurer	September 23, 2013
Randal Rein	(Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer)

* By: /s/ Diana E. McCarthy

Diana E. McCarthy

Attorney-In-Fact, pursuant to power of attorney