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Income Taxes - Summary of Reconciles Provision for Income Taxes (Detail)

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Income Taxes - Summary of Reconciles Provision for Income Taxes (Detail)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2014
Dec. 31, 2013
Dec. 31, 2012
Reconciliation of federal statutory tax rate to effective rate      
Statutory U.S. federal income tax rate 35.00%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate 35.00%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate 35.00%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationAtFederalStatutoryIncomeTaxRate
Income passed through to Partners (12.43%)us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationDeductionsDividends (25.57%)us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationDeductionsDividends (35.00%)us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationDeductionsDividends
State and local income taxes 15.60%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes 6.92%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes 5.26%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationStateAndLocalIncomeTaxes
Permanent items (3.69%)samg_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationPermanentItems 0.00%samg_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationPermanentItems 0.00%samg_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationPermanentItems
Life insurance proceeds 0.00%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationNondeductibleExpenseLifeInsurance (5.41%)us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationNondeductibleExpenseLifeInsurance 0.00%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationNondeductibleExpenseLifeInsurance
Other 2.87%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationOtherAdjustments 0.13%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationOtherAdjustments (0.17%)us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateReconciliationOtherAdjustments
Effective income tax rate 37.35%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations 11.07%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations 5.09%us-gaap_EffectiveIncomeTaxRateContinuingOperations