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INVESTMENTS (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2025
Investments, Debt and Equity Securities [Abstract] |
Schedule of Investments | The Company’s investments consist of the following at March 31, 2025 and December 31, 2024:
| March 31, 2025 |  | December 31, 2024
Debt | $ | 3,759 |  |  | $ | – |
Equity | 49,396 |  |  | 58,623 |
Funds: |  |  |
Alternative investments (a) | 50,340 |  |  | 59,230 |
Debt (a) | 111,751 |  |  | 147,173 |
Equity (a) | 227,384 |  |  | 289,610 |
Private equity | 46,287 |  |  | 43,412 |
Total funds | 435,762 |  |  | 539,425 |
Investments, at fair value | 488,917 |  |  | 598,048 |
Equity method investments | 17,580 |  |  | 16,899 |
Total investments | $ | 506,497 |  |  | $ | 614,947 |
___________________________________ (a)Interests in alternative investment funds, debt funds and equity funds include investments, including those held by LFI Consolidated Funds (see Note 21), with fair values of $20,937, $90,688 and $166,160, respectively, at March 31, 2025 and $23,865, $126,407 and $223,729, respectively, at December 31, 2024, held in order to satisfy the Company’s obligation upon vesting of previously granted Lazard Fund Interests (“LFI”) and other similar deferred compensation arrangements. LFI represent grants by the Company to eligible employees of interests in a number of Lazard-managed funds, subject to service-based vesting conditions (see Notes 7 and 13).
Schedule of Equity Securities and Trading Debt Securities Net Unrealized Investment Gains and Losses | During the three month periods ended March 31, 2025 and 2024, the Company reported in “revenue-other” on its condensed consolidated statements of operations net unrealized investment gains and losses pertaining to equity securities and trading debt securities still held as of the reporting date as follows:
| Three Months Ended March 31, |  |
| 2025 |  | 2024 |  |  |  |
Net unrealized investment gains (losses) | $ | (8,984) |  |  | $ | 11,001 |  |  |  |  |

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