ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS
Each time we offer securities using this prospectus, we will provide the specific terms and offering prices in a supplement to this
prospectus. The prospectus supplements also may add, update, or change the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus and also will describe the specific manner in which we will offer these securities.
The applicable prospectus supplement may also contain important information about United States federal income tax consequences and, in
certain circumstances, consequences under other countries tax laws to which you may become subject if you acquire the securities being offered by that prospectus supplement. You should read carefully both this prospectus and any prospectus
supplement together with the additional information described under the heading Where You Can Find More Information.
We are
responsible for the information contained or incorporated by reference in this prospectus and the applicable prospectus supplement. We have not authorized any other person to provide you with different information, and we take no responsibility for
any other information that others may give you. We are not making an offer to sell these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted. You should assume that the information appearing in this prospectus or incorporated by
reference herein is accurate only as of the date on the front of this prospectus or the respective dates of filing of the incorporated documents. Our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects may have changed since that
date.
Unless otherwise indicated or unless the context requires otherwise, all references in this prospectus to AMG,
we, us, the Company, and our refer to Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. and not our Affiliates (as defined later in this prospectus) or other subsidiaries.
RISK FACTORS
Before you invest in any of our securities, in addition to the other information in this prospectus and any applicable prospectus supplement
or free writing prospectus, you should carefully read and consider the risk factors under the heading Risk Factors contained in Part I, Item 1A in our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K, which
is incorporated by reference into this prospectus, as well as any risk factors contained in our subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and any applicable prospectus supplement, as the same may be updated
from time to time by our future filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the Exchange Act). Each of the risks described in these documents could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition,
liquidity, results of operations, and prospects, and could result in a partial or complete loss of your investment.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
Certain matters discussed in this prospectus, in the documents we incorporate by reference herein and
our other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC), in our press releases, and in oral statements made with the approval of an executive officer may constitute forward-looking statements within the
meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to our expectations regarding the performance of our business, our financial results, our liquidity and capital
resources, and other non-historical statements, and may be prefaced with words such as outlook, guidance, believes, expects, potential,
preliminary, continues, may, will, should, seeks, approximately, predicts, projects, positioned, prospects,
intends, plans, estimates, pending investments, anticipates, or the negative version of these words or other comparable words. Such statements are subject to certain risks and
uncertainties, including, among others, the factors discussed under the caption Risk Factors in the documents incorporated by reference in this prospectus.