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Registration No. 2-84904
811-3790
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. 17
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER
THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
Amendment No. 19
QUANTITATIVE GROUP OF FUNDS
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(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
55 Old Bedford Road
Lincoln, Massachusetts 01773
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(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
(781) 259-1144
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Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code
EDWARD L. PITTMAN, President
Quantitative Group of Funds
55 Old Bedford Road
Lincoln, Massachusetts 01773
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(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
Copy to:
Joseph R. Fleming, Esq.
DECHERT PRICE & RHOADS
Ten Post Office Square, Suite 1230
Boston, Massachusetts 02109
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It is proposed that this filing will become effective:
/X/ immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
/_/ on (date) pursuant to paragraph (b)
/_/ 75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
/_/ on (date) pursuant to paragraph (a) 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. Registrant requests that the
effective date of Post-Effective Amendment No. 16 be changed to
May 18, 1998.
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Pursuant to Rule 24f-2, Registrant has registered an indefinite number of
its shares of beneficial interest under the Securities Act of 1933. The Rule
24f-2 Notice for the Registrant's fiscal year ended March 31, 1997 was filed on
May 28, 1997.
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NOTICE
A copy of the Agreement and Declaration of Trust of Quantitative Group of Funds,
as amended, is on file with the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
and notice is hereby given that this instrument is executed on behalf of the
Registrant by an officer of the registrant acting as an officer and not
individually and that the obligations of or arising out of this instrument are
not binding on any of the Trustees or shareholders individually but are binding
only upon the assets and property of the Registrant.
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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 all of
the requirements for effectiveness of this Amendment to its Registration
Statement pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has
duly caused this Amendment to its Registration Statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Lincoln,
and Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the 1 day of May, 1998.
Quantitative Group of Funds
By
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Edward L. Pittman, President
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Post-Effective
Amendment to the Registration Statement of Quantitative Group of Funds has been
signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
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Robert M. Armstrong Trustee May 1, 1998
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Edward A. Bond, Jr. Trustee May 1, 1998
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John M. Bulbrook Trustee May 1, 1998
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Edward E. Burrows Trustee May 1, 1998
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Leon Okurowski Trustee May 1, 1998
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Willard L. Umphrey Trustee May 1, 1998
