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Life and non-life insurance companies, 1st quarter 2010
3 Life insurance companies. Investments in shares, participations and primary capital certificates by setctor1.
NOK Million
Sector 31.03.2009 30.06.2009* 30.09.2009* 31.12.2009* 31.03.2010*
     
Total 226 365 248 679 253 233 278 930 296 740
     
General government . . . . .
Central government . . . . .
County municipalities . . . . .
Municipalities . . . . .
     
Financial enterprises 77 240 91 916 100 226 109 440 115 554
State lending institutions . . . . .
Banks 15 1 201 1 239 1 201 1 190
Mortgage companies 460 3 3 3 3
Finance companies . 11 11 . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) 75 386 89 116 96 692 106 489 112 371
Other financial enterprises 414 549 661 714 900
Life insurance companies etc. 60 58 63 55 51
Non-life insurance companies 723 801 885 784 820
Financial auxiliaries 182 177 671 194 219
     
Non-financial enterprises 87 384 91 019 79 232 86 561 88 380
Central government enterprises . . . . .
Other state enterprises 2 085 2 513 2 973 4 049 4 461
Municipal enterprises 3 7 4 0 4
Private incorporated companies 85 296 88 499 76 254 82 512 83 915
Private non-profit institutions . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. . . . . .
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) . . . . .
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . .
Unspecified sector . . . . .
     
Rest of the world 61 741 65 744 73 775 82 930 92 806

1From January 2008, new annual account regulation for insurance companies adapted to the new International FinancialReporting Standards (IFRS) was introduced. New regulation for life insurance was introduced at the same time. Bothchanges have had an impact on the content and presentation of the insurance statistics. The statistics from 2008 cannot be compared with those from previous years.

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