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VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2016
Variable Interest Entities [Abstract]  
VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES
VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES
Westwood Trust sponsors common trust funds (“CTFs”) for its clients. These funds allow clients to commingle assets to achieve economies of scale. Westwood International and Westwood Management provide investment advisory services to Westwood Investment Funds PLC (the “UCITS Fund”), which was authorized on June 18, 2013 by the Central Bank of Ireland pursuant to the European Communities (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities) Regulations 2011 (“UCITS”), and which is an umbrella-type, open-ended self-managed investment company domiciled in Ireland. Westwood Management provides investment advisory services to the Westwood Funds®, a family of mutual funds, and one collective investment trust (“CITs”). Some clients of Westwood Management hold their investments in one or more of ten limited liability companies (“LLCs”). The CTFs, UCITS, Westwood Funds®, CITs and LLCs (“Westwood VIEs”) are considered variable interest entities (“VIEs”) because our clients, who hold the equity at risk, do not have a direct or indirect ability through voting or similar rights to make decisions about the funds that would have a significant effect on their success. We receive fees at market rates for managing assets in these entities.
We evaluate all of our advisory relationships and CTFs to determine whether or not we qualify as the primary beneficiary based on whether there is an obligation to absorb the majority of expected losses or a right to receive the majority of expected residual returns. Since all losses and returns are distributed to the shareholders of the Company’s VIEs, we are not the primary beneficiary and consequently the Westwood VIEs are not included in our condensed consolidated financial statements.
In May 2015, the Company provided seed investments of $5.4 million for two new Westwood mutual funds. In both December 2015 and January 2014, the Company provided seed investments of $2.0 million to two common trust funds. In October 2014, the Company provided a seed investment of €1.6 million, or $2.0 million at the prevailing exchange rate, to the UCITS Fund. These seed investments were provided for the sole purpose of showing the economic substance needed to establish the funds or sub-funds. The corporate capital invested in these funds is included in “Investments, at fair value” on our condensed consolidated balance sheet at September 30, 2016.
We have not otherwise provided any financial support we were not previously contractually obligated to provide and there are no arrangements that would require us to provide additional financial support to any of these VIEs. Our investments in the Westwood Funds®, the CTFs and the UCITS Fund are accounted for as investments in accordance with our other investments described in Note 4 “Investments.” We recognized fee revenue from the Westwood VIEs of $13.5 million and $14.0 million for the three months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively. We recognized fee revenue from the Westwood VIEs of $39.5 million and $43.3 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2016 and 2015, respectively.
The following table displays assets under management, corporate capital invested and risk of loss in each vehicle (in millions):
 
 
As of September 30, 2016
 
 
Assets
Under
Management
 
Corporate
Investment
 
Amount at Risk
VIEs:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Westwood Funds®
 
$
3,753

 
$
6

 
$
6

Common Trust Funds
 
2,546

 
3

 
3

Collective Investment Trusts
 
48

 

 

LLCs
 
125

 

 

UCITS Fund
 
612

 
2

 
2

VIE totals
 
7,084

 
11

 
11

All other assets:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Private Wealth
 
2,656

 
 
 
 
Institutional
 
11,532

 
 
 
 
Total Assets Under Management
 
$
21,272