As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
December 15, 2015
Registration No. 2-10816
811-00058
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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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FORM N-1A
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REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933	/ X /
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Pre-Effective Amendment No.	/    /
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Post-Effective Amendment No. 111	/ X /
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REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY	/ X /
ACT OF 1940	----
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Amendment No. 45	/ X /
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GEORGE PUTNAM BALANCED FUND
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code
(617) 292-1000
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It is proposed that this filing will become effective
(check appropriate box)

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/    /	immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
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/ X /	on November 30, 2015 pursuant to paragraph (b)
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/    /	60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
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/    /	on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
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/    /	75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
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/    /	on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.
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If appropriate, check the following box:
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/    /	this post-effective amendment designates a new
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	ROBERT T. BURNS, Vice President
	GEORGE PUTNAM BALANCED FUND
	One Post Office Square
	Boston, Massachusetts 02109
	(Name and address of agent for service)
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	Copy to:
	BRYAN CHEGWIDDEN, Esquire
	ROPES & GRAY LLP
	1211 Avenue of the Americas
	New York, New York 10036

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, 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, as amended, 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 15th day of December, 2015.

	George Putnam Balanced 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, as amended, this Amendment to the Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date 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

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

December 15, 2015

* Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-

Effective Amendment No.104 to the Registrant’s

Registration Statement on November 28, 2012

Exhibit Index 

XBRL Instance Document	Ex-101.ins
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document	Ex-101.sch
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase	Ex-101.lab
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document	Ex-101.pre
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase	Ex-101.def