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File No. 33-73140
811-8220
As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 1, 1997
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
Form N1-A
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
Pre-Effective Amendment No. ___
Post-Effective Amendment No. 9
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
Amendment No. 10
NORTHSTAR VARIABLE TRUST
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(Exact name of Registrant as specified in charter)
Two Pickwick Plaza, Greenwich, CT 06830
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(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
(203) 863-6200
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(Registrant's telephone number)
Mark L. Lipson
c/o Northstar Investment Management Corporation
Two Pickwick Plaza, Greenwich, Connecticut 06830
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(Name and address of agent for service)
Copies of all correspondence to:
Jeffrey L. Steele, Esq.
Dechert Price & Rhoads
1500 K St., N.W., Suite 500
Washington, D.C. 20005
IT IS PROPOSED THAT THIS FILING WILL BECOME EFFECTIVE:
immediately upon filing pursuant to paragraph (b)
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X on August 8, 1997 pursuant to paragraph (b)
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60 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
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on [date] pursuant to paragraph (a)(1)
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75 days after filing pursuant to paragraph (a)(2)
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on [date] pursuant to paragraph (a)(2) of Rule 485.
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If appropriate, check the following box:
X this post-effective amendment designates a new effective
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date for a previously filed post-effective amendment.
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* Registrant has registered an indefinite number of shares of beneficial
interest by its initial Registration Statement pursuant to Rule 24f-2 under
the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, which became effective May
6, 1994. Registrant filed the notice required by Rule 24f-2 with respect to
its most recent fiscal year on February 14, 1997.
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CROSS REFERENCE SHEET
This Post-Effective Amendment No. 9 to the Registration Statement of the
Northstar Variable Trust (the "Variable Trust") is being filed solely for
the purpose of delaying the effectiveness of Post-Effective Amendment No. 8
to the Variable Trust's Registration Statement which was filed pursuant to
Rule 485(a) on May 20, 1997.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the
Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certified that it
meets all the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration
Statement pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the Securities
Act of 1933, and the Registrant has duly caused this Post-Effective Amendment
to its Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned,
thereunto duly authorized, in the Town of Greenwich and the State of
Connecticut on the 31st day of July, 1997.
REGISTRANT
By: MARK L. LIPSON
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Mark L. Lipson, 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 and
on the date indicated.
SIGNATURES TITLE DATE
JOHN G. TURNER Chairman and July 31, 1997
John G. Turner* Trustee
MARK L. LIPSON President and July 31, 1997
Mark L. Lipson* Trustee
JOHN R. SMITH Trustee July 31, 1997
John R. Smith*
PAUL S. DOHERTY Trustee July 31, 1997
Paul S. Doherty*
DAVID W. WALLACE Trustee July 31, 1997
David W. Wallace*
ROBERT B. GOODE, JR. Trustee July 31, 1997
Robert B. Goode, Jr.*
WALTER MAY Trustee July 31, 1997
Walter May*
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ALAN L. GOSULE Trustee July 31, 1997
Alan L. Gosule*
DAVID W.C. PUTNAM Trustee July 31, 1997
David W.C. Putnam*
AGNES MULLADY Principal Financial July 31, 1997
Agnes Mullady and Accounting
Officer
By: /s/ AGNES MULLADY*
Agnes Mullady
Attorney-in-fact
*Executed pursuant to powers of attorney filed with PEA No. 4.
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