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Life and non-life insurance companies, 2nd quarter 2010
4 Life insurance companies. Holdings of bonds and certificates by issuing sector1. NOK Million
Sector 30.06.2009 30.09.2009* 31.12.2009* 31.03.2010* 30.06.2010*
     
Total 412 010 404 594 400 986 404 560 403 655
     
General government 76 065 70 542 63 363 57 247 58 001
Central government 54 473 50 042 45 635 41 439 40 304
County municipalities 1 917 1 656 1 277 919 1 295
Municipalities 19 674 18 844 16 451 14 888 16 402
     
Financial enterprises 94 857 94 215 88 625 89 603 91 103
State lending institutions . . . . .
Banks 70 870 69 053 63 266 64 472 65 978
Mortgage companies 22 674 23 984 24 137 23 945 23 855
Finance companies 121 4 . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) . . . . .
Other financial enterprises 789 816 863 826 910
Life insurance companies etc. 362 358 359 359 359
Non-life insurance companies . . . . .
Financial auxiliaries 40 . . . .
     
Non-financial enterprises 39 698 38 660 37 165 36 821 39 168
Central government enterprises . . . . .
Other state enterprises 21 183 20 041 18 161 17 712 17 250
Municipal enterprises 11 545 11 091 10 833 9 381 11 004
Private incorporated companies 6 970 7 529 8 172 9 728 10 914
Private non-profit institutions . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. . . . 0 0
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) . . . 0 0
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . .
Unspecified sector . . . . .
     
Rest of the world 201 390 201 177 211 832 220 889 215 383

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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