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Life and non-life insurance companies, 4th quarter 2011
3 Life insurance companies. Investments in shares, participations and primary capital certificates by setctor1.
NOK Million
Sector 31.12.2010 31.03.2011* 30.06.2011* 30.09.2011* 31.12.2011*
     
Total 371 015 403 856 411 015 396 528 386 860
     
General government . . . . .
Central government . . . . .
County municipalities . . . . .
Municipalities . . . . .
     
Financial enterprises 153 680 180 101 179 086 171 236 171 583
State lending institutions . . . . .
Banks 54 14 13 8 14
Mortgage companies . 3 3 3 3
Finance companies . . . . .
Units trust(UK)/Mutual funds (US) 149 059 175 402 174 477 167 276 166 912
Other financial enterprises 2 164 2 160 2 089 1 671 2 597
Life insurance companies etc. 69 50 46 39 78
Non-life insurance companies 1 006 981 1 006 1 037 792
Financial auxiliaries 1 328 1 490 1 452 1 202 1 188
     
Non-financial enterprises 118 903 121 698 122 837 122 395 122 985
Central government enterprises . . . . .
Other state enterprises 5 040 4 933 4 838 3 803 2 486
Municipal enterprises 3 0 0 0 0
Private incorporated companies 113 860 116 764 117 998 118 591 120 499
Private non-profit institutions . . . . .
     
Houshold etc. 116 116 117 203 252
Quasi-corporated private enterprises (i.e. partnership companies, joint ownership etc.) 116 116 117 203 64
Private non-profit institutions serving households . . . . .
Unincorporated private enterprises . . . . .
Households of employees . . . . .
Unspecified sector 0 0 0 0 188
     
Rest of the world 98 316 101 941 108 975 102 694 92 039

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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