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Non-controlling Interest (Tables) | 9 Months Ended
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Sep. 30, 2015
Noncontrolling Interest [Line Items] |
Noncontrolling Interest Disclosure [Text Block] | The following table details the balance of non-controlling interests included in White Mountains’s total equity and the related percentage of each consolidated entity’s total equity owned by non-controlling shareholders as of September 30, 2015 and December 31, 2014:
|  | September 30, 2015 |  | December 31, 2014
$ in millions |  | Non-controlling Percentage |  | Non-controlling Equity |  | Non-controlling Percentage |  | Non-controlling Equity
OneBeacon Ltd. |  | 24.7 | % |  | $ | 246.9 |  |  | 24.7 | % |  | $ | 258.4 |
SIG Preference Shares |  | 100.0 |  |  | 250.0 |  |  | 100.0 |  |  | 250.0 |
Other, excluding mutuals and reciprocals |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
HG Global |  | 3.1 |  |  | 17.3 |  |  | 3.1 |  |  | 17.9 |
MediaAlpha |  | 40.0 |  |  | 15.1 |  |  | 40.0 |  |  | 22.6 |
Tranzact |  | 36.8 |  |  | 75.6 |  |  | 36.8 |  |  | 88.2 |
Wobi |  | 4.7 |  |  | 1.8 |  |  | 36.7 |  |  | 5.4 |
Dewar |  | 32.2 |  |  | 3.5 |  |  | 18.0 |  |  | 3.4 |
Prospector Offshore Fund |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | 23.4 |  |  | 31.1 |
Total other, excluding mutuals and reciprocals |  |  |  | 113.3 |  |  |  |  | 168.6 |
Mutuals and reciprocals |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
BAM |  | 100.0 |  |  | (134.2 | ) |  | 100.0 |  |  | (121.9 | )
SSIE |  | 100.0 |  |  | (15.2 | ) |  | 100.0 |  |  | (12.4 | )
Total non-controlling interests |  |  |  |  | $ | 460.8 |  |  |  |  | $ | 542.7 |

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