# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0001295293
**File Stem:** 0001193125-25-156038
**Filing Date:** 2025-7
**Character Count:** 9330
**Document Hash:** 890c2e5117ed6f23f9c4b099785f0186
**Contains OCR:** False
**Source Format:** 

## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001193125-25-156038.hdr.sgml**: 20250707

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001193125-25-156038

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: 485BXT

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20250707

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20250707

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Putnam Target Date Funds
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001295293

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** MA
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0731

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 485BXT
- **SEC ACT:** 1940 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 811-21598
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251107401

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 100 FEDERAL STREET
- **CITY:** BOSTON
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 02110
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 6172921000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 100 FEDERAL STREET
- **CITY:** BOSTON
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 02110

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Putnam RetirementReady Funds
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20040624
**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** Putnam Target Date Funds
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0001295293

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 000000000
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** MA
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 0731

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** 485BXT
- **SEC ACT:** 1933 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 333-117134
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251107400

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 100 FEDERAL STREET
- **CITY:** BOSTON
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 02110
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 6172921000

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** 100 FEDERAL STREET
- **CITY:** BOSTON
- **STATE:** MA
- **ZIP:** 02110

**FORMER COMPANY:**
- **FORMER CONFORMED NAME:** Putnam RetirementReady Funds
- **DATE OF NAME CHANGE:** 20040624

## Series and Classes Contracts Data

### Putnam Retirement Advantage 2070 Fund (Series ID: S000093657)

| Class ID   | Class Name   | Ticker Symbol   |
|:---|:---|:---|
| C000262078 | CLASS C      |  |
| C000262079 | CLASS R      |  |
| C000262080 | CLASS R3     |  |
| C000262081 | CLASS R4     |  |
| C000262082 | CLASS R5     |  |
| C000262083 | CLASS R6     |  |
| C000262084 | CLASS Y      |  |
| C000262085 | CLASS A      |  |

### Putnam Sustainable Retirement 2070 Fund (Series ID: S000093658)

| Class ID   | Class Name   | Ticker Symbol   |
|:---|:---|:---|
| C000262086 | CLASS A      |  |
| C000262087 | CLASS C      |  |
| C000262088 | CLASS R      |  |
| C000262089 | CLASS R3     |  |
| C000262090 | CLASS R4     |  |
| C000262091 | CLASS R6     |  |
| C000262092 | CLASS Y      |  |
| C000262093 | CLASS R5     |  |

**As filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 7, 2025** 

**Securities Act File No. 333-117134** 

**Investment Company Act File No. 811-21598** 

**UNITED STATES** 

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION** 

**Washington, D.C. 20549** 

**FORM N-1A** 

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT** 

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| ***UNDER*** |  |
| ***THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933*** | ☒ |
| **Pre-Effective Amendment No.** |  |
| **Post-Effective Amendment No. 63** | ☒ |

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**and/or** 

**REGISTRATION STATEMENT** 

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| ***UNDER*** |  |
| &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; ***THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940*** | ☒ |
| **Amendment No. 64** |  |

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## PUTNAM TARGET DATE FUNDS\*
**(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)** 

**100 Federal Street** 

**Boston, MA 02110** 

**(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)** 

**Registrant's telephone number, including area code: (617) 292-1000** 

***Copy to:***

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|:---|:---|:---|
| **Name and address of agent for service:** |  |  |
| **Stephen J. Tate, Vice President** | **Bryan Chegwidden, Esq.** | **James E. Thomas, Esq.** |
| **Putnam Funds Trust** | **Ropes & Gray LLP** | **Ropes & Gray LLP** |
| **100 Federal Street** | **1211 Avenue of the Americas** | **800 Boylston Street** |
| **Boston, Massachusetts 02110** | **New York, New York 10036** | **Boston, Massachusetts 02199** |

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**Continuous** 

**(Approximate Date of Proposed Offering)** 

It is proposed that this filing will become effective:

☐ immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;☒ on August 1, 2025 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)

☐ on ______________ pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.

If appropriate, check the following box:

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;☒ This post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.

\* This filing relates solely to Putnam Retirement Advantage 2070 Fund and Putnam Sustainable Retirement 2070 Fund. Information contained in the Registrant's Registration Statement relating to any other series of the Registrant is neither amended nor superseded hereby.

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**PART A, PART B AND PART C** 

Pursuant to Rule 485(b)(1)(iii) of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective Amendment No. 63 to the Registration Statement, relating only to the Putnam Retirement Advantage 2070 Fund and Putnam Sustainable Retirement 2070 Fund, each a series of the Registrant (the "Funds"), is being filed for the sole purpose of designating August 1, 2025 as the new date upon which Post-Effective Amendment No. 62, as filed on May 1, 2025 (Accession # 0001193125-25-109708), ("PEA 62") shall become effective.

Accordingly, the [Part A—Prospectus, Part B—Statement of Additional Information and Part C of Putnam Retirement Advantage 2070 Fund and Putnam Sustainable Retirement 2070 Fund](http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1295293/000119312525109708/d946973d485apos.htm), as filed in PEA 62, are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety into this filing.

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**<u>SIGNATURE</u>**

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 pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, and has duly caused the Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized in the City of Boston, and The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, on the 7th day of July, 2025.

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| PUTNAM TARGET DATE FUNDS<br>(Registrant) | PUTNAM TARGET DATE FUNDS<br>(Registrant) |
| By: | /s/ JONATHAN S. HORWITZ |
|  | Jonathan S. Horwitz<br>Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison |

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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:

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| Signature | Title | Date |
| BARBARA M. BAUMANN\* | Chair, Board of Trustees | July 7, 2025 |
| Barbara M. Baumann | Chair, Board of Trustees | July 7, 2025 |
| ROBERT L. REYNOLDS\* | President and Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| Robert L. Reynolds | President and Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| JONATHAN S. HORWITZ\* | Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison | July 7, 2025 |
| Jonathan S. Horwitz | Executive Vice President, Principal Executive Officer and Compliance Liaison | July 7, 2025 |
| MICHAEL J. HIGGINS\* | Vice President, Treasurer and Clerk | July 7, 2025 |
| Michael J. Higgins | Vice President, Treasurer and Clerk | July 7, 2025 |
| JEFFREY W. WHITE\* | Vice President, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Assistant Treasurer | July 7, 2025 |
| Jeffrey W. White | Vice President, Principal Financial Officer, Principal Accounting Officer and Assistant Treasurer | July 7, 2025 |
| LIAQUAT AHAMED\* | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| Liaquat Ahamed | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| KATINKA DOMOTORFFY\* | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| Katinka Domotorffy | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| CATHARINE BOND HILL\* | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| Catharine Bond Hill | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| GREGORY G. MCGREEVEY\* | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| Gregory G. McGreevey | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| JENNIFER WILLIAMS MURPHY\* | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| Jennifer Williams Murphy | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| MARIE PILLAI\* | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| Marie Pillai | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| GEORGE PUTNAM III\* | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| George Putnam III | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |

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| MANOJ P. SINGH\* | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| Manoj P. Singh | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| MONA K. SUTPHEN\* | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| Mona K. Sutphen | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| JANE E. TRUST\* | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |
| Jane E. Trust | Trustee | July 7, 2025 |

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| \*By: | /s/ JONATHAN S. HORWITZ |
|  | Jonathan S. Horwitz, Attorney-in-Fact<br>(Pursuant to Power of Attorney previously filed) |

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