First Trust Exchange Traded Fund IV

10/28/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/28/2021 08:38

Post-Effective Amendment to Post-Effective Amendment by Investment Company (Form 485BXT)

As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on October 28, 2021

1933 Act Registration No. 333-174332

1940 Act Registration No. 811-22559

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. 185 [X]
and/or
Registration Statement Under the Investment Company Act of 1940 [ ]
Amendment No. 187 [X]

First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund IV

(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 IV

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):

[ ] immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

[X] on November 12, 2021 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. 185

This 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. 184, as it relates to the First Trust Limited Duration Investment Grade Corporate ETF, a series of the Registrant, until November 12, 2021. Parts A, B and C of the Registrant's Post-Effective Amendment No. 179 under the Securities Act of 1933 as it relates to the First Trust Limited Duration Investment Grade Corporate ETF, filed on May 25, 2021, 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 28th day of October, 2021.

First Trust Exchange-Traded Fund IV
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 		October 28, 2021
James M. Dykas
/s/ Donald P. Swade Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer
and Chief Accounting Officer 		October 28, 2021
Donald P. Swade
James A. Bowen* )
Trustee )
)
Richard E. Erickson* )
Trustee )
)
Thomas R. Kadlec* )
Trustee )
) By: /s/ W. Scott Jardine
Robert F. Keith* )
Trustee ) 		W. Scott Jardine
Attorney-In-Fact
) October 28, 2021
Niel B. Nielson * )
Trustee )
)
* Original powers of attorney 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, and are filed herewith.