09/16/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 09/16/2024 12:25
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 16, 2024 |
Registration No. 333-148723 |
Registration No. 811-22172 |
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. 476 | ☒ |
and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 | ☒ |
Amendment No. 477 | ☒ |
WORLD FUNDS TRUST |
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter) |
8730 Stony Point Parkway, Suite 205 Richmond, VA 23235 (804) 267-7400 |
(Address and Telephone Number of Principal Executive Offices) |
The Corporation Trust Co. |
Corporation Trust Center, 1209 Orange St., Wilmington, DE 19801 |
(Name and Address of Agent for Service) |
With Copy to: |
John H. Lively |
Practus, LLP |
11300 Tomahawk Creek Parkway, Suite 310 |
Leawood, KS 66211 |
Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering:
It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):
☐ | Immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b); | |
☒ | on September 27, 2024 pursuant to paragraph (b); | |
☐ | 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1); | |
☐ | on ____________ pursuant to paragraph (a)(1); | |
☐ | 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2); or | |
☐ | 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 filing relates solely to the following funds, each a series of World Funds Trust: T-Rex 2X Inverse Ether Daily Target ETF and T-Rex 2X Long Ether Daily Target ETF.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
This Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement on Form N-1A is filed pursuant to Rule 485(b)(1)(iii) for the sole purpose of designating September 27, 2024 as the new effective date for Post-Effective Amendment No. 467 to the Registration Statement filed on May 31, 2024, for the T-Rex 2X Inverse Ether Daily Target ETF and the T-Rex 2X Long Ether Daily Target ETF.
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) of the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment No. 476 to the Registrant's Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Richmond, Commonwealth of Virginia on the 16th day of September, 2024.
WORLD FUNDS TRUST
By: | /s/ Karen M. Shupe | |
Karen M. Shupe Treasurer and Principal Executive Officer |
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 476 to the Registration Statement on Form N-1A has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature | Title | Date | |||
* Mary Lou H. Ivey | Trustee | September 16, 2024 | |||
* Laura V. Morrison | Trustee | September 16, 2024 | |||
*Theo H. Pitt, Jr. | Trustee | September 16, 2024 | |||
*Dr. David J. Urban | Trustee | September 16, 2024 | |||
/s/ Karen M. Shupe | Treasurer and Principal Executive Officer | September 16, 2024 | |||
/s/ Ann T. MacDonald | Assistant Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer | September 16, 2024 | |||
*By: | /s/ Karen M. Shupe |
*Attorney-in-fact pursuant to Powers of Attorney