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Life and non-life insurance companies, 1st quarter 2011
3 Life insurance companies. Investments in shares, participations and primary capital certificates by setctor1.
NOK Million
Sector 31.03.2010 30.06.2010* 30.09.2010* 31.12.2010* 31.03.2011*
     
Total 296 741 296 494 313 535 372 690 404 791
     
General government . . . . .
Central government . . . . .
County municipalities . . . . .
Municipalities . . . . .
     
Financial enterprises 115 755 113 334 122 389 152 543 180 707
State lending institutions . . . . .
Banks 15 18 23 47 28
Mortgage companies 3 3 3 3 3
Finance companies . . . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) 112 371 109 998 118 773 148 790 176 123
Other financial enterprises 2 075 1 965 2 158 2 133 2 139
Life insurance companies etc. 51 43 57 52 50
Non-life insurance companies 820 796 844 867 880
Financial auxiliaries 420 511 531 651 1 484
     
Non-financial enterprises 88 152 88 062 92 908 119 774 122 003
Central government enterprises . . . . .
Other state enterprises 4 461 4 383 4 719 4 993 4 933
Municipal enterprises 4 3 3 3 0
Private incorporated companies 83 687 83 676 88 187 114 778 117 069
Private non-profit institutions . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. 27 27 28 28 28
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) 27 27 28 28 28
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . .
Unspecified sector . 0 0 0 0
     
Rest of the world 92 806 95 070 98 211 100 346 102 054

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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