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Life and non-life insurance companies, 1st quarter 2010
4 Life insurance companies. Holdings of bonds and certificates by issuing sector1. NOK Million
Sector 31.03.2009 30.06.2009* 30.09.2009* 31.12.2009* 31.03.2010*
     
Total 408 700 412 010 404 594 400 986 404 560
     
General government 85 488 76 065 70 542 63 363 57 247
Central government 65 218 54 473 50 042 45 635 41 439
County municipalities 1 940 1 917 1 656 1 277 919
Municipalities 18 330 19 674 18 844 16 451 14 888
     
Financial enterprises 99 112 94 857 94 215 88 625 89 603
State lending institutions . . . . .
Banks 75 014 70 870 69 053 63 266 64 472
Mortgage companies 22 890 22 674 23 984 24 137 23 945
Finance companies 127 121 4 . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) . . . . .
Other financial enterprises 720 789 816 863 826
Life insurance companies etc. 362 362 358 359 359
Non-life insurance companies . . . . .
Financial auxiliaries . 40 . . .
     
Non-financial enterprises 40 139 39 698 38 660 37 165 37 675
Central government enterprises . . . . .
Other state enterprises 20 523 21 183 20 041 18 161 17 712
Municipal enterprises 8 964 11 545 11 091 10 833 9 381
Private incorporated companies 10 651 6 970 7 529 8 172 10 582
Private non-profit institutions . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. . . . . 0
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) . . . . 0
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . .
Unspecified sector . . . . .
     
Rest of the world 183 960 201 390 201 177 211 832 220 036

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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