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Life and non-life insurance companies, 2010
3 Life insurance companies. Investments in subsiduaries and other shares,
participations and primary capital certificates by sector1. 31 December. NOK Million
Sector 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010*
     
Total 177 766 271 313 322 803 235 253 279 375 371 015
     
General government . . . . . .
Central government . . . . . .
County municipalities . . . . . .
Municipalities . . . . . .
     
Financial enterprises 54 585 83 503 125 829 80 618 111 199 153 680
State lending institutions . . . . . .
Banks 60 1 . 6 12 54
Mortgage companies 203 225 268 431 . .
Finance companies . . . . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) 52 093 80 617 122 189 78 392 106 952 149 059
Other financial enterprises 1 695 1 676 2 291 453 1 914 2 164
Life insurance companies etc. . 49 126 182 85 69
Non-life insurance companies 285 288 283 702 784 1 006
Financial auxiliaries 250 646 673 452 1 453 1 328
     
Non-financial enterprises 33 627 69 544 85 706 86 034 85 253 118 903
Central government enterprises . . . . . .
Other state enterprises 4 798 3 947 7 777 2 010 4 062 5 040
Municipal enterprises 15 3 3 2 0 3
Private incorporated companies 28 814 65 594 77 925 84 022 81 191 113 860
Private non-profit institutions . . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. . 0 61 28 12 116
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) . . . 11 12 116
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . . .
Unspecified sector . 0 61 17 0 0
     
Rest of the world 89 554 118 266 111 208 68 573 82 911 98 316

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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