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Life and non-life insurance companies, 1st quarter 2011
4 Life insurance companies. Holdings of bonds and certificates by issuing sector1. NOK Million
Sector 31.03.2010 30.06.2010* 30.09.2010* 31.12.2010* 31.03.2011*
     
Total 404 653 403 831 406 431 393 607 382 738
     
General government 57 247 58 046 59 417 51 951 47 513
Central government 41 439 40 304 40 899 35 329 28 975
County municipalities 919 1 295 1 444 779 1 097
Municipalities 14 888 16 447 17 074 15 843 17 441
     
Financial enterprises 89 634 91 133 98 024 101 479 103 341
State lending institutions . . . . .
Banks 64 504 66 008 69 405 67 280 57 888
Mortgage companies 23 945 23 855 27 339 32 919 44 100
Finance companies . . . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) . . . . .
Other financial enterprises 826 910 921 920 993
Life insurance companies etc. 359 359 360 360 360
Non-life insurance companies . . . . .
Financial auxiliaries . . . . .
     
Non-financial enterprises 36 883 39 268 38 438 37 319 37 606
Central government enterprises . . . . .
Other state enterprises 17 712 17 250 16 942 15 514 15 218
Municipal enterprises 9 442 11 105 11 303 11 075 11 906
Private incorporated companies 9 728 10 914 10 193 10 730 10 482
Private non-profit institutions . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. 0 0 0 0 .
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) 0 0 0 0 .
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . .
Unspecified sector . . . . .
     
Rest of the world 220 889 215 383 210 552 202 857 194 279

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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