As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 12, 2012

 

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

 

x

 

 

 

Pre-Effective Amendment No.

 

o

Post Effective Amendment No. 117

 

x

 

and/or

 


REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940

 

x

 


Amendment No. 118

x

 

(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

 

Tané T. Tyler, Esq.
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:

 


o

 

Immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) 

x

 

On December 17, 2012 pursuant to paragraph (b) 

o

 

60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) 

o

 

75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) 

o

 

On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) 

o

 

On (date) pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.

 

If appropriate, check the following box:


  x

This post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment

 

 

 





The sole purpose of this filing is to delay the effectiveness of the Trust’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 95 to its Registration Statement until December 17, 2012.  Parts A, B and C of Registrant’s Post-Effective Amendment No. 95 under the Securities Act of 1933 and Amendment No. 96 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, filed on September 13, 2012, are incorporated by reference herein.




SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 117 to 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 the 12 th day of December, 2012.

ALPS ETF TRUST

By:   /s/ Thomas A. Carter

Thomas A. Carter

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


December 12, 2012

Mary K. Anstine*

 

 


/s/ Jeremy W. Deems


Trustee


December 12, 2012

Jeremy W. Deems*

 

 


/s/ Rick A. Pederson


Trustee


December 12, 2012

Rick A. Pederson*

 

 


/s/ Thomas A. Carter


Trustee and President


December 12, 2012

Thomas A. Carter

 

 


/s/ Patrick D. Buchanan


Treasurer


December 12, 2012

Patrick D. Buchanan

 

 

*Signature affixed by Tané T. Tyler pursuant to a power of attorney dated December 8, 2008.