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Variable Interest Entities | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2014
Variable Interest Entities |
Variable Interest Entities | Variable Interest Entities The Company's Affiliates act as the investment manager for certain investment funds that are considered variable interest entities ("VIEs"). Affiliates are entitled to receive management fees and may be eligible, under certain circumstances, to receive performance fees. The Affiliates' exposure to risk in these entities is generally limited to any equity investment and any uncollected management or performance fees, neither of which were material at December 31, 2013 and September 30, 2014. The Affiliates do not have any investment performance guarantees to these VIEs. The Affiliates are not the primary beneficiary of any of these VIEs as their involvement is limited to that of a service provider and their investment, if any, represents an insignificant interest in the fund's assets under management. Since the Affiliates' variable interests will not absorb the majority of the variability of the entity's net assets, these entities are not consolidated. The net assets and liabilities of these unconsolidated VIEs and the Company's maximum risk of loss are as follows:
| December 31, 2013 |  | September 30, 2014
Category of Investment | Unconsolidated VIE Net Assets |  | Carrying Value and Maximum Exposure to Loss |  | Unconsolidated VIE Net Assets |  | Carrying Value and Maximum Exposure to Loss
Sponsored investment funds | $ | 8,112.7 |  |  | $ | 1.7 |  |  | $ | 8,544.8 |  |  | $ | 0.8 |

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- Definition This element represents the disclosure of variable interest entities (VIE), including, but not limited to the nature, purpose, size, and activities of the VIE, the carrying amount and classification of consolidated assets that are collateral for the VIE's obligations, lack of recourse if creditors (or beneficial interest holders) of a consolidated VIE have no recourse to the general credit of the primary beneficiary. Which also include information related to Sponsored Investment Funds and Trust Preferred Vehicles related to variable interest entities (VIE). + References No definition available. + Details
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