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Life and non-life insurance companies, 3rd quarter 2010
3 Life insurance companies. Investments in shares, participations and primary capital certificates by setctor1.
NOK Million
Sector 30.09.2009 31.12.2009* 31.03.2010* 30.06.2010* 30.09.2010*
     
Total 253 233 278 930 296 741 296 494 313 535
     
General government . . . . .
Central government . . . . .
County municipalities . . . . .
Municipalities . . . . .
     
Financial enterprises 100 399 109 654 115 755 113 334 122 389
State lending institutions . . . . .
Banks 3 12 15 18 23
Mortgage companies 3 3 3 3 3
Finance companies 11 . . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) 96 692 106 489 112 371 109 998 118 773
Other financial enterprises 1 858 1 903 2 075 1 965 2 158
Life insurance companies etc. 63 55 51 43 57
Non-life insurance companies 885 784 820 796 844
Financial auxiliaries 884 408 420 511 531
     
Non-financial enterprises 79 048 86 335 88 152 88 062 92 908
Central government enterprises . . . . .
Other state enterprises 2 973 4 049 4 461 4 383 4 719
Municipal enterprises 4 0 4 3 3
Private incorporated companies 76 070 82 287 83 687 83 676 88 187
Private non-profit institutions . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. 11 12 27 27 28
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) 11 12 27 27 28
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . .
Unspecified sector . . . 0 0
     
Rest of the world 73 775 82 930 92 806 95 070 98 211

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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