Form 485BPOS PUTNAM INVESTMENT FUNDS

February 18, 2020 8:03 AM EST

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission
on February 18, 2020
 
Registration No. 033-56339 
811-07237 
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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. 219  / X / 
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REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY  / X / 
ACT OF 1940  ---- 
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Amendment No. 217 / X / 
(Check appropriate box or boxes)  ---- 
   
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PUTNAM INVESTMENT FUNDS  
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)  
   
100 Federal Street, Boston, Massachusetts 02110  
(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 January 30, 2020 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 
----  effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment. 
 
 
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  ROBERT T. BURNS, Vice President 
  PUTNAM INVESTMENT FUNDS 
  100 Federal Street 
  Boston, Massachusetts 02110 
  (Name and address of agent for service) 
 
  Copy to: 
  BRYAN CHEGWIDDEN, Esquire 
  ROPES & GRAY LLP 
  1211 Avenue of the Americas 
  New York, New York 10036 

 



This Post-Effective Amendment relates solely to the Registrant's Putnam International Growth Fund and Putnam Government Money Market Fund series. Information contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement relating to any other series of the Registrant is neither amended nor superseded hereby.


   
PUTNAM INVESTMENT FUNDS 
   

Putnam International Growth Fund

Putnam Government Money Market Fund

 

 

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 February, 2020.

 

Putnam Investment Funds on behalf of

Putnam International Growth Fund

Putnam Government Money Market 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 
   
   
Kenneth R. Leibler*  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 
 

February 18, 2020 

 

 

 

* Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective Amendment No. 204 to the Registrant's Registration Statement on November 27, 2018.

 

 

 



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