Post-effective Amendment (investment Company, Rule 485(b)) (485bpos)
19 March 2014 - 11:58PM
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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 19, 2014
1933 Act Registration No. 333-176976
1940 Act Registration No. 811-22245
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM N-1A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 [ ]
Pre-Effective Amendment No. __ [ ]
Post-Effective Amendment No. 5 [X]
and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 [ ]
Amendment No. 7 [X]
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FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND III
(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)
120 East Liberty Drive, Suite 400
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
REGISTRANT'S TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE: (800) 621-1675
W. Scott Jardine, Esq., Secretary
First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund III
First Trust Advisors L.P.
120 East Liberty Drive, Suite 400
Wheaton, Illinois 60187
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
Copy to:
Eric F. Fess, Esq.
Chapman and Cutler LLP
111 West Monroe Street
Chicago, Illinois 60603
It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):
[X] immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
[ ] on ___________ 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.
This Registration Statement relates to First Trust Preferred Securities
and Income ETF, a series of the Registrant.
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the
Investment Company Act of 1940, 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 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized in the
City of Wheaton, and State of Illinois, on the 19th day of March, 2014.
FIRST TRUST EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND III
By: /s/ Mark R. Bradley
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Mark R. Bradley, President and Chief
Executive Officer
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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:
SIGNATURE TITLE DATE
President and Chief Executive March 19, 2014
/s/ Mark R. Bradley Officer
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Mark R. Bradley
Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer March 19, 2014
/s/ James M. Dykas and Chief Accounting Officer
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James M. Dykas
)
James A. Bowen* Trustee )
)
)
Richard E. Erickson* Trustee )
)
)
Thomas R. Kadlec* Trustee ) BY: /s/ W. Scott Jardine
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) W. Scott Jardine
Robert F. Keith* Trustee ) Attorney-In-Fact
) March 19, 2014
)
Niel B. Nielson* Trustee )
)
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* Original powers of attorney authorizing James A. Bowen, W. Scott
Jardine, Mark R. Bradley, Eric F. Fess and Kristi A. Maher to execute
Registrant's Registration Statement, and Amendments thereto, for each
of the trustees of the Registrant on whose behalf this Registration
Statement is filed, are filed herewith.
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