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Original issue price per share used as market price for current period acquisition. The inputs used to measure this fair value are initially unobservable.

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Original issue price per share, adjusted in the current period by an external pricing firm using performance-based measurements. The inputs used to generate this performance-based adjustment to the price are unavailable to us.

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Price-to-Sales Ratio, used as an input in the calculation of the ending market price. The inputs used to calculate this ratio are unobservable.

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Transaction price provided by a pricing firm from a recent trade with an unaffiliated company. The inputs used to measure this fair value are unavailable to us due to the nature of the investment (private security).

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Fair value portion of investment securities, including, but not limited to, marketable securities, derivative financial instruments, and investments accounted for under the equity method.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (a)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=117815213&loc=d3e19207-110258

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