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Life and non-life insurance companies, 2008
10 Non-life insurance companies. Holdings of bonds by issuing sector1.
31st of December. NOK Million
Sector 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008*
     
Total 28 165 31 300 39 056 46 236 42 885 49 085
     
General government 7 163 5 839 6 616 5 163 4 093 8 853
Central government 5 269 4 266 5 149 4 201 3 278 8 082
County municipalities 209 217 498 350 122 106
Municipalities 1 686 1 355 969 612 694 665
     
Financial enterprises 7 205 9 752 11 690 18 498 19 867 17 614
State lending institutions . . . . . .
Banks 5 770 8 218 10 587 16 611 18 009 14 952
Mortgage companies 1 413 1 516 1 064 1 473 1 703 2 340
Finance companies 7 5 1 5 10 188
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) . . . . . .
Other financial enterprises 10 7 32 398 142 17
Life insurance companies etc. 5 5 5 11 . 117
Non-life insurance companies . . . . . .
Financial auxiliaries . . . . 3 .
     
Non-financial enterprises 2 195 4 106 3 502 5 319 3 246 3 722
Central government enterprises . . . . . .
Other state enterprises 1 550 2 155 746 1 794 1 043 1 306
Municipal enterprises 473 1 092 583 1 567 677 1 263
Private incorporated companies 172 859 2 173 1 958 1 526 1 153
Private non-profit institutions . . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. 41 . 38 16 5 .
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) 20 . . . . .
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . . .
Unspecified sector 21 . 38 16 5 .
     
Rest of the world 11 561 11 603 17 210 17 239 15 674 18 896

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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