485BPOS 1 d276138d485bpos.htm PUTNAM GLOBAL HEALTH CARE FUND Putnam Global Health Care Fund

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 20, 2012

Registration No. 2-75863

811-03386

 

 

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. 33    x     

and

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

  THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940    x     
  Amendment No. 34    x     
  (Check appropriate box or boxes)   

 

 

PUTNAM GLOBAL HEALTH CARE FUND

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

 

 

One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109

(Address of principal executive offices)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code

(617) 292-1000

 

 

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

  ¨ immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
  x on January 20, 2012 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.

 

 

BETH S. MAZOR, Vice President

PUTNAM GLOBAL HEALTH CARE FUND

One Post Office Square

Boston, Massachusetts 02109

(Name and address of agent for service)

 

 

Copy to:

JOHN W. GERSTMAYR, Esquire

ROPES & GRAY LLP

Prudential Tower

800 Boylston Street

Boston, Massachusetts 02199-3600

 

 

 

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 of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 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 20th day of January, 2012.

 

PUTNAM GLOBAL HEALTH CARE FUND
By:   /s/    JONATHAN S. HORWITZ,        
 

Executive Vice President, Treasurer,

Principal Executive Officer and

Compliance Liaison

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated:

 

Signature

   

Title

 

Jameson A. Baxter*

   

Chair, Board of Trustees

 

Robert L. Reynolds*

   

President and Trustee

 

Jonathan S. Horwitz*

   

Executive Vice President, Treasurer, Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison

 

Steven D. Krichmar*

   

Vice President and Principal Financial Officer

 

Janet C. Smith*

   

Vice President, Assistant Treasurer and Principal Accounting Officer

 

Ravi Akhoury*

   

Trustee

 

Barbara M. Baumann*

   

Trustee

 

Charles B. Curtis*

   

Trustee

 

Robert J. Darretta*

   

Trustee

 

John A. Hill*

   

Trustee

 

Paul L. Joskow*

   

Trustee

 

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Kenneth R. Leibler*

   

Trustee

 

Robert E. Patterson*

   

Trustee

  

 

George Putnam, III*

   

Trustee

  

 

W. Thomas Stephens*

   

Trustee

 

By:   /s/    JONATHAN S. HORWITZ,        
  as Attorney-in-Fact January 20, 2012

 

* Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 31 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on December 29, 2010.

 

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