Related Party Transactions

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

18. Related Party Transactions

The Company’s revenues are derived primarily from investment advisory agreements with related parties. Under these agreements, the Company has licensed to related parties the use of certain of its own indexes for the U.S. and Canadian WisdomTree ETFs and WisdomTree UCITS ETFs. The Board of Trustees and Board of Directors (including certain officers of the Company) of the related parties are primarily responsible for overseeing the management and affairs of the entities for the benefit of their stakeholders and have contracted with the Company to provide for general management and administration services. The Company is also responsible for certain expenses of the related parties, including the cost of transfer agency, custody, fund administration and accounting, legal, audit, and other non-distribution services, excluding extraordinary expenses, taxes and certain other expenses, which is included in fund management and administration on the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Operations. In exchange, the Company receives fees based on a percentage of the ETFs’ average daily net assets. The advisory agreements may be terminated by the related parties upon notice.

The following table summarizes accounts receivable from related parties which are included as a component of accounts receivable on the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets:

	March 31, 2019		December 31, 2018
Receivable from WTT	$	15,036	$	14,678
Receivable from ETFS Issuers		8,786		8,779
Receivable from BI and WTI		1,004		951
Receivable from WTAMC		189		167
Receivable from WTCS		97		95
Total	$	25,112	$	24,670

The following table summarizes revenues from advisory services provided to related parties:

	Three Months Ended
	March 31, 2019		March 31, 2018
Advisory services provided to WTT	$	42,223	$	55,202
Advisory services provided to ETFS Issuers		19,273		—
Advisory services provided to BI and WTI		2,504		2,626
Advisory services provided to WTAMC		546		311
Advisory services provided to WTCS		294		317
Total	$	64,840	$	58,456

The Company also has investments in certain WisdomTree ETFs of approximately $4,940 and $7,117 at March 31, 2019 and December 31, 2018, respectively. Gains related to these ETFs for the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018 were $353 and $9, respectively.