As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 23, 2012
 
SECURITIES ACT FILE NO. 333-135105
INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT FILE NO. 811-21910  

 
 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
 
 
FORM N-1A
 
 
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
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Pre-Effective Amendment No.
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Post Effective Amendment No. 127
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and/or
REGISTRATION STATEMENT UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940
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Amendment No. 129
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(Check appropriate box or boxes)
 
 
CLAYMORE EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST 2
(EXACT NAME OF REGISTRANT AS SPECIFIED IN ITS CHARTER)
 
 
2455 CORPORATE WEST DRIVE
LISLE, ILLINOIS 60532
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
 
 
(630) 505-3700
 Registrant's Telephone Number
 
 
KEVIN M. ROBINSON, ESQ.
GUGGENHEIM FUNDS INVESTMENT ADVISORS, LLC
2455 CORPORATE WEST DRIVE
LISLE, ILLINOIS 60532
(Name and Address of Agent for Service)
 
 
Copy to:
STUART M. STRAUSS, ESQ.
DECHERT LLP
1095 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS
NEW YORK, NY 10036
 
 
APPROXIMATE DATE OF PROPOSED PUBLIC OFFERING:
 
 
IT IS PROPOSED THAT THIS FILING WILL BECOME EFFECTIVE (CHECK APPROPRIATE BOX)
 
   
 
IMMEDIATELY  UPON FILING PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (B) OF RULE 485.
   
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ON DECEMBER 21, 2012 PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (B) OF RULE 485.
   
 
60 DAYS AFTER FILING PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (A)(1) OF RULE 485.
   
 
ON [DATE] PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (A) OF RULE 485.
   
 
75 DAYS AFTER FILING PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (A)(2) OF RULE 485.
   
 
ON [DATE] PURSUANT TO PARAGRAPH (A) OF RULE 485.
 
 
 

 
 
     The sole purpose of this filing is to delay the effectiveness of the Trust's Post-Effective Amendment No. 85 to its Registration Statement until December 21, 2012. Parts A, B and C of Registrant's Post-Effective Amendment No. 85 under the Securities Act of 1933 and Amendment No. 87 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, filed on June 6, 2011 are incorporated by reference herein.
 
 
 

 
 
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 the requirements for effectiveness pursuant to Rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Lisle and State of Illinois on the 23rd day of November, 2012.
 
   
 
CLAYMORE EXCHANGE-TRADED FUND TRUST 2
   
  By:  
/s/ Donald C. Cacciapaglia             
 
Donald C. Cacciapaglia
 
Chief Executive Officer
   
 
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
 
     
*
   
November 23, 2012
Randall C. Barnes
  Trustee  
       
*    
November 23, 2012
Roman Friedrich III   Trustee  
       
*    
November 23, 2012
Robert B. Karn III   Trustee  
       
*
   
November 23, 2012
Ronald A. Nyberg
  Trustee  
 
     
*
   
November 23, 2012
Ronald E. Toupin, Jr.
  Trustee  
       
/s/ Donald C. Cacciapaglia
   
November 23, 2012
Donald C. Cacciapaglia   Trustee  
       
/s/ John L. Sullivan
 
Treasurer, Chief Financial
November 23, 2012
John L. Sullivan  
Officer and Chief
 
 
 
Accounting Officer
 
       
/s/ Stevens. T Kelly
   
November 23, 2012
Stevens. T Kelly      
*Attorney-In-Fact, pursuant to power of attorney