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Life and non-life insurance companies, 2008
3 Life insurance companies. Investments in subsiduaries and other shares,
participations and primary capital certificates by sector1. 31 December. NOK Million
Sector 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008*
     
Total 99 505 134 546 177 766 271 311 322 743 237 087
     
General government . . . . . .
Central government . . . . . .
County municipalities . . . . . .
Municipalities . . . . . .
     
Financial enterprises 28 695 43 764 54 585 83 503 125 829 81 523
State lending institutions . . . . . .
Banks 90 144 60 1 . 6
Mortgage companies 174 188 203 225 268 433
Finance companies . . . . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) 26 375 41 164 52 093 80 617 122 189 79 751
Other financial enterprises 1 713 1 901 1 695 1 676 2 291 453
Life insurance companies etc. 12 . . 49 126 43
Non-life insurance companies 171 195 285 288 283 702
Financial auxiliaries 160 172 250 646 673 136
     
Non-financial enterprises 21 018 25 406 33 627 69 544 85 706 86 503
Central government enterprises . . . . . .
Other state enterprises 2 477 2 945 4 798 3 947 7 777 2 001
Municipal enterprises 12 31 15 3 3 2
Private incorporated companies 18 529 22 431 28 814 65 594 77 925 84 499
Private non-profit institutions . . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. . . . . . 17
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 . . . . . 17
     
Rest of the world 49 792 65 375 89 554 118 264 111 208 69 044

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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