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Life and non-life insurance companies, 3rd quarter 2011
3 Life insurance companies. Investments in shares, participations and primary capital certificates by setctor1.
NOK Million
Sector 30.09.2010 31.12.2010* 31.03.2011* 30.06.2011* 30.09.2011*
     
Total 313 535 372 588 403 856 411 015 396 528
     
General government . . . . .
Central government . . . . .
County municipalities . . . . .
Municipalities . . . . .
     
Financial enterprises 122 389 153 159 180 101 179 086 171 236
State lending institutions . . . . .
Banks 23 22 14 13 8
Mortgage companies 3 3 3 3 3
Finance companies . . . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) 118 773 148 790 175 402 174 477 167 276
Other financial enterprises 2 158 2 164 2 160 2 089 1 671
Life insurance companies etc. 57 52 50 46 39
Non-life insurance companies 844 969 981 1 006 1 037
Financial auxiliaries 531 1 159 1 490 1 452 1 202
     
Non-financial enterprises 93 101 119 155 121 698 122 837 122 395
Central government enterprises . . . . .
Other state enterprises 4 719 4 993 4 933 4 838 3 803
Municipal enterprises 3 3 0 0 0
Private incorporated companies 88 380 114 159 116 764 117 998 118 591
Private non-profit institutions . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. 28 116 116 117 203
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) 28 116 116 117 203
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . .
Unspecified sector 0 0 0 0 0
     
Rest of the world 98 018 100 158 101 941 108 975 102 694

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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