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Life and non-life insurance companies, 4th quarter 2010
3 Life insurance companies. Investments in shares, participations and primary capital certificates by setctor1.
NOK Million
Sector 31.12.2009 31.03.2010* 30.06.2010* 30.09.2010* 31.12.2010*
     
Total 279 375 296 741 296 494 313 535 372 690
     
General government . . . . .
Central government . . . . .
County municipalities . . . . .
Municipalities . . . . .
     
Financial enterprises 110 962 115 755 113 334 122 389 152 543
State lending institutions . . . . .
Banks 12 15 18 23 47
Mortgage companies . 3 3 3 3
Finance companies . . . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) 106 952 112 371 109 998 118 773 148 790
Other financial enterprises 1 914 2 075 1 965 2 158 2 133
Life insurance companies etc. 85 51 43 57 52
Non-life insurance companies 784 820 796 844 867
Financial auxiliaries 1 216 420 511 531 651
     
Non-financial enterprises 85 490 88 152 88 062 92 908 119 774
Central government enterprises . . . . .
Other state enterprises 4 062 4 461 4 383 4 719 4 993
Municipal enterprises 0 4 3 3 3
Private incorporated companies 81 428 83 687 83 676 88 187 114 778
Private non-profit institutions . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. 12 27 27 28 28
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) 12 27 27 28 28
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . .
Unspecified sector 0 . 0 0 0
     
Rest of the world 82 911 92 806 95 070 98 211 100 346

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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