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SIGNATURE BRANDON S. JOEL
TITLE TREASURER
The Board of Trustees and Shareholders
Lord Asset Management Trust
In planning and performing our audit of the financial statements
of the Thomas White World Fund series of Lord Asset Management
Trust for the year ended October 31, 1996, we considered its
internal control structure, including procedures for safeguarding
securities, in order to determine our auditing procedures for the
purpose of expressing our opinion on the financial statements and
to comply with the requirements of Form N-SAR, not to provide
assurance on the internal control structure.
The management of Lord Asset Management Trust is responsible for
establishing and maintaining an internal control structure. In
fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and judgments by
management are required to assess the expected benefits, and
related costs of internal control structure policies and
procedures. Two of the objectives of an internal control
structure are to provide management with reasonable, but not
absolute, assurance that assets are safeguarded against loss from
unauthorized use or disposition and that transactions are executed
in accordance with management's authorization and recorded
properly to permit preparation of financial statements in
conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.
Because of inherent limitations in any internal control structure,
errors or irregularities may occur and not be detected. Also,
projection of any evaluation of the structure to future periods is
subject to the risk that it may become inadequate because of
changes in conditions or that the effectiveness of the design and
operation may deteriorate.
Our consideration of the internal control structure would not
necessarily disclose all matters in the internal control structure
that might be material weaknesses under standards established by
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A
material weakness is a condition in which the design or operation
of the specific internal control structure elements does not
reduce to a relatively low level the risk that errors or
irregularities in amounts that would be material in relation to
the financial statements being audited may occur and not be
detected within a timely period by employees in the normal course
of performing their assigned functions. However, we noted no
matters involving the internal control structure, including
procedures for safeguarding securities, that we consider to be
material weaknesses as defined above as of October 31, 1996.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of
management and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
McGladrey & Pullen, LLP
New York, New York
November 22, 1996
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