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Related Party Transactions
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions
16. Related Party Transactions
The Company’s revenues are derived primarily from investment advisory agreements with related parties. Under these agreements, the Company has licensed to related parties the use of certain of its own indexes for the U.S. WisdomTree ETFs and WisdomTree UCITS ETFs. The Board of Trustees and Board of Directors (including certain officers of the Company) of the related parties are primarily responsible for overseeing the management and affairs of the entities for the benefit of their stakeholders and have contracted with the Company to provide for general management and administration services. The Company is also responsible for certain expenses of the related parties, including the cost of transfer agency, custody, fund administration and accounting, legal, audit, and other
non-distribution
services, excluding extraordinary expenses, taxes and certain other expenses, which are included in fund management and administration in the Consolidated Statements of Operations. In exchange, the Company receives fees based on a percentage of the ETPs’ average daily net assets. A majority of the independent members of the Board of Trustees are required to annually approve the advisory agreements of the U.S. WisdomTree ETFs and these agreements may be terminated by the Board of Trustees upon notice.
 
The following table summarizes accounts receivable from related parties which are included as a component of accounts receivable in the Consolidated Balance Sheets:
 
    
March 31,
2022
    
December 31,
2021
 
Receivable from WTT
   $ 15,711      $ 15,987  
Receivable from ManJer Issuers
     6,879        6,460  
Receivable from WMAI and WTI
     3,153        3,181  
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Total
   $ 25,743      $ 25,628  
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
The allowance for credit losses on accounts receivable from related parties is insignificant when applying historical loss rates, adjusted for current conditions and supportable forecasts, to the amounts outstanding in the table above. Amounts outstanding are all invoiced in arrears, are less than 30 days aged and are collected shortly after the applicable reporting period.
The following table summarizes revenues from advisory services provided to related parties:
 
    
Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
    
2022
    
2021
 
Advisory services provided to WTT
   $ 46,070      $ 40,536  
Advisory services provided to ManJer Issuers
(1)
     26,905        25,471  
Advisory services provided to WMAI and WTI
     3,542        4,035  
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
Total
   $ 76,517      $ 70,042  
    
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
(1)
Advisory fees previously reported have been revised due to an immaterial error correction. These revisions had no effect on previously reported net income. See Note 2 for additional information.
The Company also has investments in certain WisdomTree ETFs of approximately $
15,769
and $
18,526
at March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively. Net losses related to trading WisdomTree ETFs during the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 were $
806
and $
384
, respectively, which are recorded in other losses, net
i
n the Consolidated Statements of Operations.