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Asset Management: A voice for the buyside; Partnership with the sellside. Building relationships on Wall Street and across Washington.

The AMG is a unique leadership community of asset managers comprised of the largest and most influential market participants in the United States. The Group focuses on advancing market practices and enhancing legislative and regulatory effectiveness to improve the operations, efficiency, and trust in our markets.

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AMG's Goals

Working to create standards for SAS 70 audit reports, particularly in light of Sarbanes Oxley Section 404 requirements.

Emerging Issues
As a formal Group within SIFMA, the AMG works to be responsive to emerging issues in the industry that may have an impact on asset management firms. For example, the AMG organizes and hosts “emerging issues” call-ins with expert panelists on a variety of topics and trends, past topics include the implementation of MiFID and the convergence of the fixed-income and derivatives markets.

Latest Releases:

March 27, 2008
SIFMA’s Asset Management Group to Play Key Role in Meeting 2008 Goals Outlined by Operations Management Group for Derivatives Trades Processing
Read Industry letter (pdf) with update to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York outlines goals, strategies and major benchmarks toward the continued improvement and streamlining of operational efficiency within the credit and equities derivatives market.

Operational Issues (AMF)
The Asset Managers Forum (AMF) serves as the AMG’s voice on buy side operations and processing initiatives.The AMF is:

• Working on the development of a standardized fail report within its Fails Management Working Group;
• Promoting its STP Initiative that would help make “standing settlement instructions” available to counterparties and their agents on a real-time basis;
• Educating operations professionals on new derivatives processing initiatives;
• Advancing its Corporate Actions Best Practices program in cooperation with custodians, broker-dealers, vendors, DTCC and other industry utilities;
• Expanding its reach by working closely with organizations such as DTCC and SWIFT whose services are widely offered to diverse market participants;
• Providing educational training classes to members;
• Providing workshops, lunch and learns and other events on current industry topics.

Outreach and Networking

One of the benefits of membership in the AMG is the opportunity to build relationships with industry peers. The AMG is a bridge-builder between industry members and other constituencies that play a vital role in the financial markets. The AMG is:

• Developing ongoing relationships with regulatory and legislative bodies and with key market participants to improve the operations, efficiency, and trust in our markets.
• Building direct relationships with segments of the Street that are most relevant to AMG’s advocacy activities; most notably, these segments currently include rating agencies, exchanges and accounting policy-makers.
• Implementing Roundtables for CEO’s and other senior executives at buy side firms to discuss the “business of the business.”
• Reinforcing its relationship with the financial press by working with SIFMA’s Public Relations department.
• Communicating with its members through member-visits to ensure that a firm’s needs and issues are being addressed. AMG Steering Committee members will be routinely requested to suggest creative member-driven agenda items for the four AMG Steering Committee meetings scheduled to be held in 2007.

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