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Life and non-life insurance companies, 2nd quarter 2011
3 Life insurance companies. Investments in shares, participations and primary capital certificates by setctor1.
NOK Million
Sector 30.06.2010 30.09.2010* 31.12.2010* 31.03.2011* 30.06.2011*
     
Total 296 494 313 535 372 690 404 791 411 954
     
General government . . . . .
Central government . . . . .
County municipalities . . . . .
Municipalities . . . . .
     
Financial enterprises 113 334 122 389 152 543 180 707 178 962
State lending institutions . . . . .
Banks 18 23 47 28 7
Mortgage companies 3 3 3 3 3
Finance companies . . . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) 109 998 118 773 148 790 176 123 175 198
Other financial enterprises 1 965 2 158 2 133 2 139 2 088
Life insurance companies etc. 43 57 52 50 46
Non-life insurance companies 796 844 867 880 904
Financial auxiliaries 511 531 651 1 484 717
     
Non-financial enterprises 88 062 93 101 119 962 122 003 123 877
Central government enterprises . . . . .
Other state enterprises 4 383 4 719 4 993 4 933 4 838
Municipal enterprises 3 3 3 0 0
Private incorporated companies 83 676 88 380 114 965 117 069 119 038
Private non-profit institutions . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. 27 28 28 28 29
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) 27 28 28 28 29
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . .
Unspecified sector 0 0 0 0 0
     
Rest of the world 95 070 98 018 100 158 102 054 109 086

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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