Form 485BPOS PUTNAM INVESTMENT FUNDS

	As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
	on September 18, 2017
	Registration No. 33-56339
	811-07237
	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. 186	/ X /
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	REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY	/ X /
	ACT OF 1940	----
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	Amendment No. 184	/ X /
	(Check appropriate box or boxes)	----
	PUTNAM INVESTMENT FUNDS
	(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
	One Post Office Square, Boston, Massachusetts 02109
	(Address of principal executive offices)
	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)
/ /	immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
/ X /	on August 30, 2017 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.
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	Robert T. Burns, Vice President
	PUTNAM INVESTMENT FUNDS
	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
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This Post-Effective Amendment relates solely to the Registrant's Putnam Capital Opportunities Fund and Putnam Multi-Cap Value Fund series. Information contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement relating to any other series of the Registrant is neither amended nor superseded hereby.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 18^th day of September, 2017.

 

Putnam Investment Funds

 

	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

September 18, 2017

 

 

*Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment

No. 171 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on November 23, 2016.

 

**Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment

No. 122 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on November 26, 2012.

 

	***Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective
	Amendment No. 179 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on May
	23, 2017

 

 

 

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