Form 485BPOS PUTNAM INVESTMENT FUNDS

July 15, 2016 9:43 AM EDT

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission  
on July15, 2016  
 
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. 168  / X / 
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REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY  / X / 
ACT OF 1940  ---- 
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Amendment No. 166  / 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 June 30, 2016 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 Small 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series of the Registrant is neither amended nor superseded hereby.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 15th day of July, 2016.

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 
 
Robert L. Reynolds*  President and Trustee 
 
Jonathan S. Horwitz*  Executive Vice President, Principal Executive 
  Officer and Compliance Liaison 
 
Steven D. Krichmar*  Vice President and Principal Financial Officer 
 
Janet C. Smith*  Vice President, Principal Accounting Officer and 
  Assistant Treasurer 
 
Liaquat Ahamed*  Trustee 
 
Ravi Akhoury*  Trustee 
 
Barbara M. Baumann*  Trustee 
 
Robert J. Darretta*  Trustee 
 
Katinka Domotorffy*  Trustee 
 
John A. Hill*  Trustee 
 
Paul L. Joskow*  Trustee 

 



Kenneth R. Leibler*  Trustee 
 
Robert E. Patterson*  Trustee 
 
George Putnam, III*  Trustee 
 
W. Thomas Stephens*  Trustee 

 

By: /s/ Jonathan S. Horwitz, 
as Attorney-in-Fact 
July 15, 2016 
 
 
* Signed pursuant to power of attorney filed in Post-Effective 
Amendment No. 122 to the Registrant’s Registration Statement on 
November 26, 2012. 

 



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