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Non-controlling Interests (Tables) | 6 Months Ended
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Jun. 30, 2020
Noncontrolling Interest [Abstract] |
Non-controlling Interests | The following table presents 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 June 30, 2020 and December 31, 2019:
|  | June 30, 2020 |  | December 31, 2019
$ in Millions |  | Non-controlling Percentage |  | Non-controlling Equity |  | Non-controlling Percentage |  | Non-controlling Equity
Non-controlling interests, excluding BAM |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
HG Global |  | 3.1 | % |  | $ | 14.7 |  |  | 3.1 | % |  | $ | 14.4 |
NSM |  | 3.4 | % |  | 16.7 |  |  | 3.6 | % |  | 14.9 |
Other NSM |  | 13.4 | % |  | (.1 | ) |  | 13.4 | % |  | (.1 | )
Kudu |  | .8 | % |  | 2.4 |  |  | .9 | % |  | 2.2 |
Other Operations |  | various |  |  | (1.8 | ) |  | various |  |  | (1.5 | )
Total, excluding BAM |  |  |  | 31.9 |  |  |  |  | 29.9 |
BAM |  | 100.0 | % |  | (134.6 | ) |  | 100.0 | % |  | (146.7 | )
Total non-controlling interests |  |  |  |  | $ | (102.7 | ) |  |  |  | $ | (116.8 | )

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