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Affiliate Equity (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Affiliate Equity [Abstract] |
Summary of Affiliate Equity Compensation | A summary of Affiliate equity expense is as follows:
| For the Three Months Ended March 31,
| 2014 |  | 2015
Affiliate equity expense | $ | 14.8 |  |  | $ | 9.3 |
Tax benefit | 2.9 |  | 1.5
Schedule of Changes in Redeemable Non-Controlling Interests | The following table presents the changes in Redeemable non-controlling interests during the period:
| Redeemable Non-controlling Interests
Balance, as of December 31, 2014 | $ | 645.5 |
Transactions in Redeemable non-controlling interests | (12.2 | )
Changes in redemption value | 109.9 |
Balance, as of March 31, 2015 | $ | 743.2 |
Schedule of Changes in the Company's Interest in its Affiliates on the Controlling Interest's Equity | The following schedule discloses the effect of changes in the Company's ownership interest in its Affiliates on the controlling interest's equity:
| For the Three Months Ended March 31,
| 2014 |  | 2015
Net income (controlling interest) | $ | 77.2 |  |  | $ | 128.0 |
Increase (decrease) in controlling interest paid-in capital from purchases and sales of Affiliate equity | (16.3 | ) |  | (3.0 | )
Change from Net income (controlling interest) and net transfers with non-controlling interests | $ | 60.9 |  |  | $ | 125.0 |

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