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Customer Inducements

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Customer Inducements
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2012
Customer Inducements [Abstract]  
Customer Inducements
4. Customer Inducements

Prior to acquiring FundQuest, the Company provided FundQuest and its clients with the Company’s platform technology and support services, replacing FundQuest’s technology platform (“Platform Services Agreement”). The Company earned fees based upon a contractual percentage of assets under administration. As a result of the acquisition of FundQuest on December 13, 2011 (Note 3), the Platform Services Agreement was terminated, and all of the assets and liabilities associated with the Platform Services Agreement were eliminated.

In connection with the Platform Services Agreement, the Company was required to make various payments to FundQuest during the contract term as defined in the Platform Services Agreement. These payments included an up-front payment upon completion of the conversion of FundQuest’s clients’ assets to the Company’s technology platform, five annual payments and a payment after the fifth year of the Platform Services Agreement calculated based on the average annual revenues the Company was to receive from FundQuest during the first five years of the contract term. As of December 31, 2010, the estimate of the present value of these payments was approximately $30,400. The Company also issued to FundQuest a warrant to purchase 1,388,888 shares of its common stock, with an exercise price of $10.80 for an estimated fair value of $2,946 as of December 31, 2010. The present value of all payments and the fair value of the warrant was accounted for as customer inducement costs and were amortized as a reduction to the Company’s revenues from assets under management or administration on a straight-line basis over the contract term of seven years.

Amortization and imputed interest expense was as follows:

 

                                 
    Three Months Ended
September 30,
    Nine Months Ended
September 30,
 
    2012     2011     2012     2011  

Amortization expense

  $ —       $ 1,207     $ —       $ 3,620  

Imputed interest expense

    —         202       —         609