As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 18, 2014
Registration No. 2-25258
811-01403
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. 72 | x |
and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER
THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 | x | |
Amendment No. 48 | x | |
(Check appropriate box or boxes) |
PUTNAM GLOBAL EQUITY FUND
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
Registrants 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 February 28, 2014 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. |
ROBERT T. BURNS, Vice President
PUTNAM GLOBAL EQUITY 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, MA 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 18th day of March, 2014.
PUTNAM GLOBAL EQUITY FUND | ||
By: | /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Amendment to the 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, Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison | |
Steven D. Krichmar* | Vice President and Principal Financial Officer | |
Janet C. Smith* | Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer and Assistant Treasurer | |
Liaquat Ahamed* | Trustee | |
Ravi Akhoury* | Trustee | |
Barbara M. Baumann* | Trustee | |
Charles B. Curtis* | Trustee | |
Robert J. Darretta* | Trustee |
Katinka Domotorffy* |
Trustee | |
John A. Hill* | Trustee | |
Paul L. Joskow* | Trustee | |
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 | |
March 18, 2014 | ||
* Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 69 to the Registrants Registration Statement on February 26, 2013. |
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