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Life and non-life insurance companies, 3rd quarter 2010
4 Life insurance companies. Holdings of bonds and certificates by issuing sector1. NOK Million
Sector 30.09.2009 31.12.2009* 31.03.2010* 30.06.2010* 30.09.2010*
     
Total 404 594 400 986 404 560 403 655 406 253
     
General government 70 542 63 363 57 247 58 001 59 371
Central government 50 042 45 635 41 439 40 304 40 899
County municipalities 1 656 1 277 919 1 295 1 444
Municipalities 18 844 16 451 14 888 16 402 17 028
     
Financial enterprises 94 215 88 625 89 603 91 103 97 994
State lending institutions . . . . .
Banks 69 053 63 266 64 472 65 978 69 374
Mortgage companies 23 984 24 137 23 945 23 855 27 339
Finance companies 4 . . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) . . . . .
Other financial enterprises 816 863 826 910 921
Life insurance companies etc. 358 359 359 359 360
Non-life insurance companies . . . . .
Financial auxiliaries . . . . .
     
Non-financial enterprises 38 660 37 165 36 821 39 168 38 336
Central government enterprises . . . . .
Other state enterprises 20 041 18 161 17 712 17 250 16 942
Municipal enterprises 11 091 10 833 9 381 11 004 11 201
Private incorporated companies 7 529 8 172 9 728 10 914 10 193
Private non-profit institutions . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. . . 0 0 0
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) . . 0 0 0
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . .
Unspecified sector . . . . .
     
Rest of the world 201 177 211 832 220 889 215 383 210 552

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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