Variable Interest Entities (Summary Of Consolidated Variable Interest Entities) (Details) - Consolidated Variable Interest Entities [Member] - USD ($) $ in Thousands	Jun. 30, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Variable Interest Entity [Line Items]
Assets Held by VIEs	$ 283,417	$ 289,558
Assets Held as Collateral for Debt	55,181	57,735
Debt Held by a VIE	$ 37,178	$ 37,178

The carrying amount of the consolidated Variable Interest Entity's assets included in the reporting entity's statement of financial position.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 810
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (bb)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=52262685&loc=d3e5710-111685

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The carrying amount of the consolidated Variable Interest Entity's liabilities included in the reporting entity's statement of financial position.

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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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Variable Interest Entity's (VIE) assets considered as collateral on debt included in the statement of financial position of the reporting entity. This element is applicable for variable interests whether the reporting entity has a controlling financial interest (primary beneficiary) or not.

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