12/09/2025 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 12/09/2025 08:37
AS FILED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION ON DECEMBER 9, 2025
REGISTRATION NOS. 033-75340
811-08360
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. 150 | ☒ | |
| AND/OR |
| REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940 | ☐ |
| AMENDMENT NO. 151 | ☒ |
Guinness Atkinson Funds
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
251 South Lake Avenue, Suite 800
Pasadena, California 91101
(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including Zip Code)
Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code: (626) 628-2787
James J. Atkinson, President
Guinness Atkinson Funds
251 South Lake Avenue, Suite 800
Pasadena, California 91101
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
Please send copies of communication to:
Alexandra K. Alberstadt, Esq
Seward & Kissel, LLP
One Battery Park Plaza
New York, NY 10004
It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box):
| ☐ | immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485; or |
| ☒ | on December 17, 2025, pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485; or |
| ☐ | 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485; |
| ☐ | on _________ pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485; or |
| ☐ | 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485; or |
| ☐ | on __________ pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485; or |
| ☐ | on __________ pursuant to paragraph (a)(3) 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. |
Explanatory Note
This Post-Effective Amendment ("PEA") to the Registration Statement on Form N-1A is being filed for the sole purpose of designating a new effective date for the previously filed PEA No. 148 to the Registrant's Registration Statement filed under Rule 485(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 on September 26, 2025 for the purpose of creating the new series Guinness Atkinson US Dividend Builder ETF and Guinness Atkinson International Dividend Builder ETF. This PEA incorporates by reference the information contained in Parts A, B and C of PEA No. 148 to the Registrant's Registration Statement filed on September 26, 2025. The Registrant may file additional subsequent delaying amendments designating a new effective date.
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 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Glendora and State of California, on the 9th day of December, 2025.
| GUINNESS ATKINSON FUNDS | ||
| By: | /s/ James Atkinson | |
| James Atkinson | ||
| President and Principal Executive Officer | ||
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this Registration Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
| Signature | Title | Date | ||
| /s/ James Atkinson | President and Principal Executive Officer | December 9, 2025 | ||
| James Atkinson | ||||
| /s/ J.I. Fordwood* | Trustee | December 9, 2025 | ||
| J.I. Fordwood | ||||
| /s/ Timothy Guinness* | Trustee | December 9, 2025 | ||
| Timothy Guinness | ||||
| /s/ Bret A. Herscher* | Trustee | December 9, 2025 | ||
| Bret A. Herscher | ||||
| /s/ Jeffrey Long* | Trustee | December 9, 2025 | ||
| Jeffrey Long | ||||
| /s/ J. Brooks Reece, Jr.* | Trustee and Chairman | December 9, 2025 | ||
| J. Brooks Reece, Jr. | ||||
| /s/ Rita Dam | Treasurer, Principal Accounting Officer and | December 9, 2025 | ||
| Rita Dam | Principal Financial Officer | |||
| *By: /s/ Rita Dam | ||||
| Rita Dam | ||||
| Attorney-in-Fact |