08/30/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 08/30/2024 11:25
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 30, 2024
1933 Act Registration No. 333-182308
1940 Act Registration No. 811-22717
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. 190 | [X] |
and/or | |
Registration Statement Under the Investment Company Act of 1940 | [ ] |
Amendment No. 192 | [X] |
First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VI
(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 VI
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
320 South Canal Street
Chicago, Illinois 60606
It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):
[ ] immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
[X] on September 9, 2024 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:
[X] this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.
Contents of Post-Effective Amendment No. 190
This Post-Effective Amendment to the Registration Statement comprises the following papers and contents:
The Facing Sheet
The sole purpose of this filing is to delay the effectiveness of the Registrant's Post-Effective Amendment No. 189, as it relates to the First Trust Bloomberg Core Earnings Leaders Index ETF, a series of the Registrant, until September 9, 2024. Parts A, B and C of the Registrant's Post-Effective Amendment No. 176 under the Securities Act of 1933 as it relates to the First Trust Bloomberg Core Earnings Leaders Index ETF, filed on May 1, 2024, are incorporated by reference herein.
Signatures
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 30th day of August, 2024.
First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund VI | ||
By: | /s/ James M. Dykas | |
James M. Dykas, President and Chief Executive Officer |
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 | |
/s/ James M. Dykas |
President and Chief Executive Officer |
August 30, 2024 | |
James M. Dykas | |||
/s/ Derek D. Maltbie |
Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer |
August 30, 2024 | |
Derek D. Maltbie | |||
James A. Bowen* |
) Trustee ) |
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Richard E. Erickson* |
) Trustee ) |
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Thomas R. Kadlec* |
) Trustee ) |
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Denise M. Keefe* |
) Trustee ) |
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Robert F. Keith* |
) Trustee ) |
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) | By: | /s/ W. Scott Jardine | |
Niel B. Nielson* |
) Trustee ) |
W. Scott Jardine Attorney-In-Fact |
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) | August 30, 2024 | ||
Bronwyn Wright* |
) Trustee ) |
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* | Original powers of attorney dated December 31, 2015or November 1, 2021or September 11, 2023, authorizing James A. Bowen, W. Scott Jardine, James M. Dykas, 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, were previously executed, filed as an exhibit and are incorporated by reference herein. |