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Variable Interest Entities
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2012
Variable Interest Entities  
Variable Interest Entities

10.   Variable Interest Entities

Sponsored Investment Funds

        The Company's Affiliates act as the investment manager for certain investment funds that are considered variable interest entities ("VIEs"). In addition to an Affiliate's involvement as the investment manager, Affiliates may also hold investments in these products. Affiliates are not the primary beneficiary of these VIEs as their involvement is limited to that of a service provider and their investment, if any, represents an insignificant interest in the fund's assets under management. As a result, the Company's variable interests will not absorb the majority of the variability of the entity's net assets and therefore the Company has not consolidated these entities.

Trust Preferred Vehicles

        The Company established wholly-owned trusts in connection with the 2006 and 2007 issuances of junior convertible trust preferred securities. These entities are considered VIEs and the Company is not the primary beneficiary, therefore these entities are not consolidated in the Company's financial statements.

        The net assets and liabilities of these unconsolidated VIEs and the Company's maximum risk of loss related thereto are as follows:

 
  December 31, 2011   June 30, 2012  
 
  Unconsolidated
VIE Net Assets
  Carrying Value and
Maximum Exposure
to Loss
  Unconsolidated
VIE Net Assets
  Carrying Value and
Maximum Exposure
to Loss
 

Sponsored investment funds

  $ 3,618.4   $ 1.1   $ 6,591.8   $ 1.7  

Trust preferred vehicles

    9.0     9.0     9.0     9.0