As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 19, 2014

1933 Act Registration No. 033-17619

1940 Act Registration No. 811-05349

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. 402	x

and/or

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940	x
Amendment No. 403	x

(Check appropriate box or boxes)

GOLDMAN SACHS TRUST

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

71 South Wacker Drive

Chicago, Illinois 60606

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

Registrant’s Telephone Number, including Area Code: (312) 655-4400

CAROLINE KRAUS, ESQ.

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

200 West Street

New York, New York 10282

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Copies to:

STEPHEN H. BIER, ESQ.

Dechert LLP

1095 Avenue of the Americas

New York, NY 10036

Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering: As soon as practicable after the effective date of the registration statement

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

x immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

¨ on (date) 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.

Title of Securities Being Registered:

Class A, Class C, Institutional, Class IR and Class R Shares of the Goldman Sachs Multi-Asset Real Return Fund.

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 Post-Effective Amendment No. 402 under Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 402 to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City and State of New York on the 19^th day of March, 2014.

GOLDMAN SACHS TRUST (A Delaware statutory trust)
By:	/s/ Caroline Kraus
	Caroline Kraus Secretary

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment to said Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

Name	Title	Date
1James A. McNamara James A. McNamara	President (Chief Executive Officer) and Trustee	March 19, 2014
1Scott M. McHugh Scott M. McHugh	Treasurer, Senior Vice President and Principal Financial Officer	March 19, 2014
1Ashok N. Bakhru Ashok N. Bakhru	Chairman and Trustee	March 19, 2014
1Donald C. Burke Donald C. Burke	Trustee	March 19, 2014
1John P. Coblentz, Jr. John P. Coblentz, Jr.	Trustee	March 19, 2014
1Diana M. Daniels Diana M. Daniels	Trustee	March 19, 2014
1Joseph P. LoRusso Joseph P. LoRusso	Trustee	March 19, 2014
1Herbert J. Markley Herbert J. Markley	Trustee	March 19, 2014
1Jessica Palmer Jessica Palmer	Trustee	March 19, 2014
1Alan A. Shuch Alan A. Shuch	Trustee	March 19, 2014
1Richard P. Strubel Richard P. Strubel	Trustee	March 19, 2014
1Roy W. Templin Roy W. Templin	Trustee	March 19, 2014

By:	/s/ Caroline Kraus
	Caroline Kraus, Attorney-In-Fact

¹  Pursuant to powers of attorney previously filed.

CERTIFICATE

The undersigned Secretary for Goldman Sachs Trust (the “Trust”) hereby certifies that the Board of Trustees of the Trust duly adopted the following resolution at a meeting of the Board held on October 16-17, 2013.

RESOLVED, that the Trustees and Officers of the Trust who may be required to execute any amendments to the Trust’s Registration Statement be, and each hereby is, authorized to execute a power of attorney appointing James A. McNamara, Caroline Kraus, Andrew Murphy, Robert Griffith and Matthew Wolfe, jointly and severally, their attorneys-in-fact, each with power of substitution, for said Trustees and Officers in any and all capacities to sign the Registration Statement under the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 of the Trust and any and all amendments to such Registration Statement, and to file the same, with exhibits thereto, and other documents in connection therewith, with the SEC, the Trustees and Officers hereby ratifying and confirming all that each of said attorneys-in-fact, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may do or may have caused to be done by virtue hereof.

Dated: March 19, 2014

/s/ Caroline Kraus

Caroline Kraus,

Secretary

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