485BPOS 1 alps-485bpos_061818.htm POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT

 

  

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 18, 2018

 

Securities Act File No. 333-148826

Investment Company Act File No. 811-22175

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

 

FORM N-1A

 

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933   ☒
     
Pre-Effective Amendment No.   ☐
Post Effective Amendment No. 295   ☒

 

and/or

 

 

REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940   ☒

 

 

Amendment No. 296 ☒

 

(Check appropriate box or boxes)

 

ALPS ETF TRUST

 (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

1290 Broadway
Suite 1100
Denver, Colorado 80203
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

 

(303) 623-2577
Registrant’s Telephone Number

 

Andrea E. Kuchli, Secretary
ALPS Fund Services, Inc.
1290 Broadway
Suite 1100
Denver, Colorado 80203
 (Name and Address of Agent for Service)

 

Copy to:

Stuart M. Strauss, Esq.
Dechert LLP
1095 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036

 

It is proposed that this filing will become effective:

 

 

☒   Immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) 
☐   On (date) pursuant to paragraph (b) 
☐   60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) 
☐   75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) 
☐   On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) 
☐   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

 

 

 
 

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 the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 295 of its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the city of Denver, and State of Colorado, on June 18, 2018.

 

  ALPS ETF TRUST
   
   
  By: /s/ Edmund J. Burke
    Edmund J. Burke
    President

 

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 date indicated.

Signatures   Title   Date
         
/s/ Mary K. Anstine   Trustee   June 18, 2018
Mary K. Anstine*        
         
/s/ Jeremy W. Deems   Trustee   June 18, 2018
Jeremy W. Deems*        
         
/s/ Rick A. Pederson   Trustee and Chairman   June 18, 2018
Rick A. Pederson*        
         
/s/ Edmund J. Burke   Trustee   June 18, 2018
Edmund J. Burke        
         
/s/ Jeremy O. May   Treasurer   June 18, 2018
Jeremy O. May        

 

*Signature affixed by Andrea E. Kuchli pursuant to a power of attorney dated June 8, 2017.

 
 

 

EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Index No.   Description of Exhibit
   
EX-101.INS   XBRL Instance Document
   
EX-101.SCH   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
   
EX-101.CAL   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase
   
EX-101.DEF   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase
   
EX-101.LAB   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase
   
EX-101.PRE   XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase