485BPOS 1 a_georgecvr.htm GEORGE PUTNAM BALANCED FUND a_georgecvr.htm
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
December 18, 2017
  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. 116  / X / 
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  REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY  / X / 
  ACT OF 1940  ---- 
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  Amendment No. 50  / 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, 2017 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 18th day of December, 2017.

 

 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


Kenneth R. Leibler* Vice Chair, Board of Trustees


Robert L. Reynolds* President and Trustee


Jonathan S. Horwitz* Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer
and Compliance Liaison

Janet C. Smith* Vice President, Principal Financial Officer,
Principal Accounting Officer and Assistant Treasurer

Liaquat Ahamed* Trustee

Ravi Akhoury* Trustee

Barbara M. Baumann* Trustee

Katinka Domotorffy* Trustee

Catharine Bond Hill* Trustee

Paul L. Joskow* Trustee

Robert E. Patterson* Trustee

George Putnam, III* Trustee

Manoj P. Singh* Trustee

 

By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, as Attorney-in-Fact
  December 18, 2017

*Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 115 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on November 22, 2017.