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Life and non-life insurance companies, 3rd quarter 2011
4 Life insurance companies. Holdings of bonds and certificates by issuing sector1. NOK Million
Sector 30.09.2010 31.12.2010* 31.03.2011* 30.06.2011* 30.09.2011*
     
Total 406 431 393 607 382 738 383 305 396 019
     
General government 59 417 51 951 47 513 47 619 46 398
Central government 40 899 35 329 28 975 27 908 27 816
County municipalities 1 444 779 1 097 1 345 1 268
Municipalities 17 074 15 843 17 441 18 367 17 314
     
Financial enterprises 98 024 101 479 103 341 95 670 103 060
State lending institutions . . . . .
Banks 69 405 67 280 57 888 56 536 51 948
Mortgage companies 27 339 32 919 44 100 38 012 49 987
Finance companies . . . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) . . . . .
Other financial enterprises 921 920 993 762 750
Life insurance companies etc. 360 360 360 360 375
Non-life insurance companies . . . . .
Financial auxiliaries . . . . .
     
Non-financial enterprises 38 438 37 319 37 606 39 481 40 346
Central government enterprises . . . . .
Other state enterprises 16 942 15 514 15 218 15 970 15 277
Municipal enterprises 11 303 11 075 11 896 11 929 13 523
Private incorporated companies 10 193 10 730 10 492 11 582 11 545
Private non-profit institutions . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. 0 0 . . .
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) 0 0 . . .
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . .
Unspecified sector . . . . .
     
Rest of the world 210 552 202 857 194 279 200 534 206 215

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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