9. Investment in Enova

Upon completion of the Enova Spin-off, the Company retained approximately 20 percent, or 6,596,927 shares of Enova common stock, and the Company agreed, pursuant to a private letter ruling it obtained in connection with the Enova Spin-off, to dispose of its retained shares of Enova common stock (other than the shares retained for delivery under the Company’s long-term incentive plans (the “LTIPs”) as described below) no later than two years after the date of the Enova Spin-off. At the time of the private letter ruling, Company management believed that the Company’s shares of Enova common stock would be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) as close to the Enova Spin-off date as possible in order to efficiently dispose of the shares in open market dispositions over a two-year period. Due to delays in the registration process, the Company’s shares of Enova common stock were not registered until September 15, 2015, thereby only allowing the Company slightly over a year to dispose of its shares of Enova stock. In November 2015, the Company sent a supplemental request to the Internal Revenue Service requesting that the Company be allowed to extend the original two-year period to dispose of its retained shares of Enova common stock by an additional year. The Company anticipates that it will receive a response from the Internal Revenue Service in the first half of 2016.

As of December 31, 2015, the Company owned 6,475,611 shares and had allocated 511,505 of these retained shares for delivery under the LTIPs that existed prior to the Enova Spin-off (as described below), resulting in the Company’s implied residual ownership in Enova equal to approximately 18 percent of the outstanding Enova common stock as of December 31, 2015. See table below for additional information.

All of the retained shares of Enova common stock (including shares retained for delivery under the Company’s LTIPs as described below) are classified as “available-for-sale securities” in accordance with ASC 320, Investments-Debt and Equity Securities (“ASC 320”). The Company does not account for its investment in Enova common stock under the equity method for the following reasons: The Company does not have the ability to significantly influence the strategy or the operating or financial policies of Enova. The Company does not share employees or management with Enova and does not participate in any policy-making process of Enova. The Company does not have the right to vote on matters put before Enova stockholders because it has granted Enova a proxy to vote its shares in the same proportion as the other stockholders of Enova on all such matters. In addition, the Company has agreed to divest its ownership in Enova within two years following the Enova Spin-off, subject to any potential extension permitted by the Internal Revenue Service, if any, as discussed above. While Daniel R. Feehan, the Company’s Executive Chairman of the Board, serves as one of eight members of Enova’s Board of Directors, he does not serve on any committees of Enova’s Board of Directors, and the Company is not able to influence his future election to Enova’s Board of Directors because it does not have voting power with respect to the shares of Enova that it owns. The Company also does not have any material business relationships with Enova.

The retained shares of Enova common stock include a portion of shares of Enova common stock that may be delivered by the Company to holders of certain outstanding unvested RSUs, vested deferred RSUs, and unvested deferred RSUs that were granted by the Company under the LTIPs to certain of its officers, directors and employees, as well as Director Deferred Shares, if such equity awards and Director Deferred Shares were outstanding under the LTIPs on the date of the Enova Spin-off.

Such RSU awards and Director Deferred Shares will be payable by the Company in both shares of Company common stock and Enova common stock, subject to the terms of the LTIPs and/or the applicable award agreements. The delivery of the Enova shares of common stock will occur periodically based on the vesting or deferral terms that are applicable to the RSU awards or Director Deferred Shares. In the event the award does not vest and shares are forfeited or if shares are withheld to pay taxes for vested awards, the Enova shares will be retained by the Company and sold.

As of December 31, 2015, the Company’s cost basis in its investment in Enova common stock was approximately $19.6 million, and an unrealized gain of approximately $23.0 million was included in “Accumulated other comprehensive income.” For the year ended December 31, 2015, the Company recognized a gain of approximately $1.7 million for the disposition of Enova common stock as a result of the distribution of shares for payment of RSU awards, as well as the sale of shares that were withheld to pay taxes for issued awards. The Company’s investment in Enova common stock is included in “Investment in equity securities” in the consolidated balance sheets. Activity during the year ended December 31, 2015 for the Enova shares retained by the Company is shown below (shares in ones):



	Enova Shares Attributed to the Company ^(a)		Potential Enova Shares to be Delivered Under the LTIPs ^(b)		Total Enova Shares Held by the Company
Enova shares as of December 31, 2014	5,911,840		685,087		6,596,927
Forfeitures ^(c)	52,266		(52,266	)	—
Shares delivered under the LTIPs	—		(90,052	)	(90,052	)
Shares withheld for taxes and sold	—		(31,264	)	(31,264	)
Shares held as of December 31, 2015	5,964,106		511,505		6,475,611
% ownership of Enova as of December 31, 2015	18.07	%	1.55	%	19.62	%

^(a)Does not include shares retained for delivery under the LTIPs.

^(b)The Enova shares payable for vested deferred RSUs and Director Deferred Shares are held in a rabbi trust.

^(c) Shares initially allocated for delivery under the LTIPs that were forfeited prior to vesting are attributed to the Company and are to be disposed of by the Company.