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Segment Information | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2011
Segment Information [Abstract] |
Segment Information | 17. Segment Information The Company has determined its reportable segments based on the Company’s method of internal reporting, which disaggregates its retail business by branch and its proprietary and investment banking businesses by product. The Company’s segments are: Private Client which includes commission and fee income earned on client transactions, net interest earnings on client margin loans and cash balances, stock loan activities and financing activities; Capital Markets which includes investment banking, market-making activities in over-the-counter equities, institutional trading in both fixed income and equities, structured assets transactions, bond trading, trading in mortgage-backed securities, corporate underwriting activities, public finance activities, syndicate participation as well as the Company’s operations in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and Israel; and Asset Management which includes fees from money market funds and the investment management services of Oppenheimer Asset Management Inc. and Oppenheimer’s asset management divisions employing various programs to professionally manage client assets either in individual accounts or in funds. The Company evaluates the performance of its segments and allocates resources to them based upon profitability. The Company has allocated all revenue and expenses to its segments and has eliminated the “Other” category as these are now allocated by the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer in their analysis. Previously reported segment information has been revised to reflect this change. The table below presents information about the reported revenue and profit before income taxes of the Company for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009. Asset information by reportable segment is not reported, since the Company does not produce such information for internal use. Expressed in thousands of dollars.
|  |  | September 30, |  |  |  | September 30, |  |  |  | September 30, |
|  | Year ended December 31, |
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2009 |
Revenue: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Private Client (1) (2) |  | $ | 535,371 |  |  | $ | 570,448 |  |  | $ | 543,365 |
Capital Markets |  |  | 349,613 |  |  |  | 391,868 |  |  |  | 383,909 |
Asset Management (1) |  |  | 74,008 |  |  |  | 73,957 |  |  |  | 63,206 |
Total |  | $ | 958,992 |  |  | $ | 1,036,273 |  |  | $ | 990,480 |
Profit (loss) before income taxes: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Private Client (2) |  | $ | 17,990 |  |  | $ | 25,531 |  |  | $ | 14,237 |
Capital Markets |  |  | (17,973 | ) |  |  | 18,894 |  |  |  | 6,680 |
Asset Management |  |  | 17,831 |  |  |  | 23,566 |  |  |  | 16,150 |
Total |  | $ | 17,848 |  |  | $ | 67,991 |  |  | $ | 37,067 |
(1) | For the year ended December 31, 2011, the Asset Management and the Private Client segments earned performance fees of approximately $2.0 million and $1.0 million, respectively ($6.8 million and $6.1 million, respectively, in 2010 and $5.1 million and $5.4 million, respectively, in 2009). These fees are based on participation as general partner in various alternative investments.
(2) | For the years ended December 31, 2011, the Private Client segment continued to be negatively impacted by the low interest rate environment. Revenue from margin interest, money fund products and sponsored FDIC-covered deposits totaled $33.9 million ($37.7 million in 2010 and $45.5 million in 2009).
Revenues, classified by the major geographic areas in which they were earned for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, were as follows: Expressed in thousands of dollars.
|  |  | September 30, |  |  |  | September 30, |  |  |  | September 30, |
|  | 2011 |  |  | 2010 |  |  | 2009 |
United States |  | $ | 909,662 |  |  | $ | 976,402 |  |  | $ | 945,049 |
Europe / Middle East |  |  | 28,858 |  |  |  | 28,077 |  |  |  | 22,580 |
Asia |  |  | 11,301 |  |  |  | 16,511 |  |  |  | 14,688 |
South America |  |  | 9,171 |  |  |  | 15,283 |  |  |  | 8,163 |
Total |  | $ | 958,992 |  |  | $ | 1,036,273 |  |  | $ | 990,480 |

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 12 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8595-108599 Reference 2: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 10 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8538-108599 Reference 3: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 33 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8971-108599 Reference 4: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 34 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8981-108599 Reference 5: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 29 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8864-108599 Reference 6: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8380-108599 Reference 7: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 35 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8984-108599 Reference 8: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 41 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9038-108599 Reference 9: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 32 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8933-108599 Reference 10: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (FAS) -Number 131 -LegacyDoc This reference is SUPERSEDED by the Accounting Standards Codification effective for interim and annual periods ending after September 15, 2009. This reference is included to help users transition from the previous accounting hierarchy and will be removed from future versions of this taxonomy. Reference 11: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 30 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8906-108599 Reference 12: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 26 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8844-108599 Reference 13: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 40 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9031-108599 Reference 14: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 42 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e9054-108599 Reference 15: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 31 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6534315&loc=d3e8924-108599 + Details
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