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Life and non-life insurance companies, 1st quarter 2010
8 Non-life insurance companies. Investments in shares, participations and primary capital certificates by sector1.
NOK Million
Sector 31.03.2009 30.06.2009* 30.09.2009* 31.12.2009* 31.03.2010*
     
Total 32 989 34 963 35 432 38 248 42 162
     
General government . . . . .
Central government . . . . .
County municipalities . . . . .
Municipalities . . . . .
     
Financial enterprises 12 523 13 601 13 578 15 321 15 627
State lending institutions . . . . .
Banks 22 30 36 960 906
Mortgage companies . . . . .
Finance companies . . . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) 6 851 7 996 7 832 8 312 8 603
Other financial enterprises 4 655 4 588 4 707 5 101 5 249
Life insurance companies etc. . . . 111 111
Non-life insurance companies 397 421 434 483 404
Financial auxiliaries 597 568 570 354 355
     
Non-financial enterprises 6 049 6 172 6 225 6 787 7 740
Central government enterprises . . . . .
Other state enterprises 82 107 146 179 183
Municipal enterprises 3 3 4 4 5
Private incorporated companies 5 964 6 062 6 076 6 604 7 553
Private non-profit institutions . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. 53 48 46 27 .
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 53 48 46 27 .
     
Rest of the world 14 363 15 142 15 582 16 113 18 795

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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