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Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value

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Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020
Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value
Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value

(4)Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value

For assets and liabilities required to be reported at fair value, GAAP provides a hierarchy that prioritizes inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value into three broad levels. Level1 inputs are quoted market prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities that the reporting entity has the ability to access at the measurement date. Level2 inputs are inputs, other than quoted market prices included within Level1, that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly. Level3 inputs are unobservable inputs for the asset or liability.

The Company's assets and liabilities measured at fair value are as follows:

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September30, 2020

December31, 2019

Quoted

Quoted

prices

prices

inactive

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inactive

Significant

marketsfor

other

marketsfor

other

identical

observable

identical

observable

assets

inputs

assets

inputs

Description

Total

(Level1)

(Level2)

Total

(Level1)

(Level2)

amountsinmillions

Cash equivalents

$

524

524

339

339

Indemnification asset

$

310

310

202

202

Debt

$

1,682

1,682

1,557

1,557

The majority of the Company's Level2 financial assets and liabilities are primarily debt instruments with quoted market prices that are not considered to be traded on "active markets," as defined in GAAP. The fair values for such instruments are derived from a typical model using observable market data as the significant inputs.

The indemnification asset relates to GCI Liberty’s agreement to indemnify Liberty Interactive LLC (“LI LLC”) and pertains to the ability of holders of LI LLC’s 1.75% exchangeable debentures due 2046 (the “1.75% Exchangeable

Debentures”) to exercise their exchange right according to the terms of the debentures on or before October 5, 2023. Such amount will equal the difference between the exchange value and par value of the 1.75% Exchangeable Debentures at the time the exchange occurs. The indemnification asset recorded in the condensed consolidated balance sheets as of September30, 2020 represents the fair value of the estimated exchange feature included in the 1.75% Exchangeable Debentures primarily based on market observable inputs (Level 2). As of September30, 2020, a holder of the 1.75% Exchangeable Debentures has the ability to exchange and, accordingly, such indemnification asset is included as a current asset in our condensed consolidated balance sheet as of that date.

Realized and Unrealized Gains (Losses) on Financial Instruments

Realized and unrealized gains (losses) on financial instruments are comprised of changes in the fair value of the following:

Three months ended

Nine months ended

September30,

September30,

2020

2019

2020

2019

amounts in millions

Exchangeable senior debentures

(145)

(49)

(225)

(304)

Indemnification asset

94

3

107

58

Other financial instruments

39

1

(9)

7

$

(12)

(45)

(127)

(239)

The Company has elected to account for its exchangeable debt using the fair value option. Changes in the fair value of the exchangeable senior debentures recognized in the condensed consolidated statement of operations are primarily due to market factors primarily driven by changes in the fair value of the underlying shares into which the debt is exchangeable. The Company isolates the portion of the unrealized gain (loss) attributable to the change in the instrument specific credit risk and recognizes such amount in other comprehensive earnings (loss). The change in the fair value of the exchangeable senior debentures attributable to changes in the instrument specific credit risk was a loss of $90 million and a gain of $7 million for the three months ended September30, 2020 and 2019, respectively, and a gain of $39 million and a loss of $12 million for the nine months ended September30, 2020 and 2019, respectively. The cumulative change was a gain of $210 million as of September30, 2020.