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Life and non-life insurance companies, 2nd quarter 2011
4 Life insurance companies. Holdings of bonds and certificates by issuing sector1. NOK Million
Sector 30.06.2010 30.09.2010* 31.12.2010* 31.03.2011* 30.06.2011*
     
Total 403 831 406 431 393 607 382 738 383 305
     
General government 58 046 59 417 51 951 47 513 47 619
Central government 40 304 40 899 35 329 28 975 27 908
County municipalities 1 295 1 444 779 1 097 1 345
Municipalities 16 447 17 074 15 843 17 441 18 367
     
Financial enterprises 91 133 98 024 101 479 103 341 95 670
State lending institutions . . . . .
Banks 66 008 69 405 67 280 57 888 56 536
Mortgage companies 23 855 27 339 32 919 44 100 38 012
Finance companies . . . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) . . . . .
Other financial enterprises 910 921 920 993 762
Life insurance companies etc. 359 360 360 360 360
Non-life insurance companies . . . . .
Financial auxiliaries . . . . .
     
Non-financial enterprises 39 268 38 438 37 319 37 606 39 481
Central government enterprises . . . . .
Other state enterprises 17 250 16 942 15 514 15 218 15 970
Municipal enterprises 11 105 11 303 11 075 11 906 11 939
Private incorporated companies 10 914 10 193 10 730 10 482 11 572
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 215 383 210 552 202 857 194 279 200 534

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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