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Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination.

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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks paid or offered to be paid in a business combination.

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Cost of the investment.

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Balance held at close of period in number of shares.

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Percent of net assets at close of period. For schedules of investments that are categorized, each category has a percent of net assets for the aggregated value of the Investments in the category.

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The cash outflow associated with the acquisition of business during the period. The cash portion only of the acquisition price.

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Investments (Details) £ / shares in Units, $ / shares in Units, € in Millions, £ in Millions, $ in Millions	1 Months Ended		12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2014 EUR (€)	Sep. 30, 2014 USD ($)	Dec. 31, 2013 USD ($) shares	Dec. 31, 2014 shares	Jul. 17, 2014 USD ($) $ / shares shares	Jul. 17, 2014 GBP (£) £ / shares shares
All3Media [Member]
Schedule of Investments [Line Items]
Business acquisition, cash consideration	€ 90.0	$ 147.2
DLG [Member] \| All3Media [Member]
Schedule of Investments [Line Items]
Percentage of equity, percentage of shares acquired	100.00%	100.00%
Ziggo [Member]
Schedule of Investments [Line Items]
Number of common stock shares owned (in shares)			57,000,738
Percent of investment owned (less than 5% for Sumitomo)			28.50%
Shares not pledged as collateral (in shares)			4,743,738
Cash dividends from investment \| $			$ 78.4
ITV [Member]
Schedule of Investments [Line Items]
Number of common stock shares owned (in shares)					259,820,065	259,820,065
Percent of investment owned (less than 5% for Sumitomo)	6.40%	6.40%
Share price (in GBP/USD per share) \| (per share)					$ 3.14	£ 1.85
Cost method investments					$ 816.3	£ 480.7
DLG Acquisition Limited [Member]
Schedule of Investments [Line Items]
Percent of investment owned (less than 5% for Sumitomo)				50.00%
Sumitomo [Member]
Schedule of Investments [Line Items]
Number of common stock shares owned (in shares)			45,652,043	45,652,043
Percent of investment owned (less than 5% for Sumitomo)				5.00%
ITI Neovision S.A. (ITI Neovision) (formerly Canal Cyfrowy S.A.) [Member]
Schedule of Investments [Line Items]
Percentage of equity, percentage of shares acquired				17.00%