As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 26, 2000
Registration No. 2-52242
Registration No. 811-2538
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM N-1A
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REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933 [ ]
Pre-Effective Amendment No. [ ]
Post-Effective Amendment No. 73 [X]
and
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
Amendment No. 67 [X]
(Check appropriate box or boxes)
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TOUCHSTONE INVESTMENT TRUST
(f/k/a/ Countrywide Investment Trust)
(Exact name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
312 Walnut Street, 21st Floor
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
(Address of Registrant's Principal Executive Offices)
Registrant's Telephone Number (513) 629-2000
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Copy to:
ROBERT H. LESHNER KAREN M. MCLAUGHLIN, ESQ.
312 Walnut Street, 21st Floor Frost & Jacobs LLP
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202 2500 PNC Center
(Name and Address of Agent for Service) 201 East Fifth Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45202
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Approximate Date of Proposed Public Offering: Continuous Offering
It is proposed that this filing will become effective (check appropriate box)
[ ] immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
[X] on May 2, 2000 pursuant to paragraph (b)
[ ] 60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
[ ] on ____________ pursuant to paragraph (a)(1) of Rule 485
[ ] 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
[ ] on ____________ pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485
If appropriate, please check the following box:
[X] this post-effective amendment designates a new effective date for a
previously filed post-effective amendment
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This Post-Effective Amendment No. 73 under the Securities Act of 1933 and
Post-Effective Amendment No. 67 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 for
Touchstone Investment Trust (f/k/a Countrywide Investment Trust) is being filed
for the sole purpose of delaying the effectiveness of Post-Effective Amendment
No. 71 under the Securities Act of 1933 and Post-Effective Amendment No. 65
under the Securities Act of 1940 and incorporates by reference Parts A, B and C,
including the Powers of Attorney, of the aforementioned Post-Effective
Amendments.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment
Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certifies that it meets the requirements of
Securities Act Rule 485(b) for effectiveness of this Post-Effective Amendment to
the Registrant's Registration Statement and has duly caused this Post-Effective
Amendment to the Registrant's Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf
by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Cincinnati, State of Ohio,
on the 25th day of April, 2000.
TOUCHSTONE INVESTMENT TRUST
By: /s/ Robert H. Leshner
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Robert H. Leshner, President
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration
Statement has been signed below by the following persons in the capacities
indicated.
SIGNATURE TITLE
/s/ Robert H. Leshner April 25, 2000
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Robert H. Leshner
/s/ Theresa M. Samocki April 25, 2000
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Theresa M. Samocki
William O. Coleman* Trustee
Phillip R. Cox* Trustee
H. Jerome Lerner* Trustee
/s/ Jill T. McGruder April 25, 2000
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Jill T. McGruder
Oscar P. Robertson* Trustee
Nelson Schwab, Jr.* Trustee
Robert E. Stautberg* Trustee
Joseph S. Stern, Jr.* Trustee
*By: /s/ Jill T. McGruder April 25, 2000
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Jill T. McGruder
As attorney in fact for each Trustee
