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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Percentage of transfers into assets measured at fair value that have taken place during the period.

No definition available.

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Fair Value Measurement With Unobservable Inputs Reconciliation Recurring Basis Asset Value Nonperformance Risk

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Represents the fair value of level 3 fair value measurements of investments for which the underlying quantitative inputs are not developed by the Company or are not reasonably available.

No definition available.

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Amount of transfer of financial instrument classified as an asset into level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/disclosureRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 820
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 2
-Subparagraph (c)(3)
-URI https://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=126976982&loc=d3e19207-110258

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Amount of transfers of financial instrument classified as an asset out of level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.

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