First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF — new fund registration

First Trust Exchange Traded Fund III registered 1 new fund series on Form 485APOS, filed 2014-04-01. Featured series: First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF.

Registration

• Registrant / trust: First Trust Exchange Traded Fund III
• CIK: 0001424212
• Form: 485APOS
• Filed: 2014-04-01
• Accession: 0001445546-14-001910
• Reported net assets: $2.3B

Series & classes (1)

Fees (from the effective prospectus)

• 12b-1 fee: 0.00%
• Gross expense ratio: 1.38%
• Management fee: 0.95%
• Net expense ratio: 1.48%
• Other expenses: 0.43%

Investment objective

The First Trust Long/Short Equity ETF s (the Fund ) investment objective is to seek to provide investors with long-term total return.

Advisers

• First Trust Advisors L.P. (Advisor)

Other filings by this registrant (15)

• 485APOS — 2026-06-30
• 485APOS — 2026-06-25
• 485APOS — 2026-02-19
• 485APOS — 2020-10-14 (1 new series)
• 485APOS — 2020-05-01 (1 new series)
• 485APOS — 2019-12-30 (1 new series)
• 485APOS — 2019-10-18 (1 new series)
• 485APOS — 2018-08-17 (1 new series)
• 485APOS — 2018-08-17 (1 new series)
• 485APOS — 2017-05-04 (1 new series)
• 485APOS — 2017-03-24 (1 new series)
• 485APOS — 2016-06-06 (2 new series)

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