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Percentage of accrued performance fees related to certain corporate private equity funds.

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Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 942
-SubTopic 225
-Section S99
-Paragraph 1
-Subparagraph (SX 210.9-04.13 (a))
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Accrued Performance Fees - Additional Information (Details) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2017 USD ($) fund	Mar. 31, 2016 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2016 fund
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Percentage of accrued performance fees related to certain Corporate Private Equity funds	19.00%		27.00%
Number of Partnership's Corporate Private Equity funds related to accrued performance fees \| fund	1		2
Performance fees	$ 681.6	$ 145.2
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member]
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Percentage of performance fees related to certain Corporate Private Equity funds	79.00%	92.00%
Performance fees	$ 537.5	$ 133.1
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member] \| Carlyle Partners V, L.P.
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Performance fees	184.6	73.5
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member] \| Carlyle Partners VI, L.P.
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Performance fees	253.6
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member] \| Carlyle Asia Partners IV, L.P.
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Performance fees	$ 165.1
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member] \| Carlyle Asia Partners III, L.P.
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Performance fees		(15.3)
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member] \| Carlyle Realty Partners V, L.P.
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Performance fees		51.9
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member] \| Carlyle Realty Partners VI, L.P.
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Performance fees		19.6
Performance Fee Revenue [Member] \| Customer Concentration Risk [Member] \| Carlyle Realty Partners VII, L.P.
Segment Reporting Information [Line Items]
Performance fees		$ 36.3