Form 485BPOS PUTNAM VARIABLE TRUST

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on
September 26, 2018
	Registration No. 033-17486
	811-05346
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. 67	/X/
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	REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY	/X/
	ACT OF 1940	---
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	Amendment No. 68	/X/
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PUTNAM VARIABLE TRUST
(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
	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 September 17, 2018 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
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	ROBERT T. BURNS, Vice President
	PUTNAM VARIABLE TRUST
	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

 

 

 

	This Post-Effective Amendment relates solely to the Registrant's Putnam VT Small Cap Growth Fund series. Information contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement relating to anyother 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 26^th day of September, 2018.

 

Putnam Variable Trust

 

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 September 26, 2018

*Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-

Effective Amendment No. 59 to the Registrant’s

Registration Statement on February 26, 2018.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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