Life insurance companies accounted for most of the net purchases, SEK 91 billion. Life insurance companies made net purchases of shares and participations of SEK 31 billion, and investment funds increased most in the portfolio. Net purchases of bonds for SEK 17 billion were made, and of net reverse repo transactions for SEK 21 billion.

Non-life insurance companies made net purchases of SEK 12 billion in total during the quarter. The main contributions to the net purchases included financial investments (SEK 8 billion), money market instruments (SEK 2 billion), and bonds (SEK 2 billion).

Investment assets of insurance companies continue to increase

Insurance companies' total investment assets amounted to SEK 4 450 billion at the end of the quarter. This is an increase of SEK 184 billion, or four percent, compared with the end of the year, and an increase of SEK 427 billion, or 11 percent, compared with the first quarter of 2016.

Life insurance companies accounted for SEK 3 925 billion of the total investment assets, which means an increase of SEK 167 billion, or four percent, during the quarter. Total investment assets of non-life insurance companies amounted to SEK 525 billion, which is an increase of SEK 17 billion, or three percent.

A more detailed report of this survey is published in a Statistical Report.

2017-09-07 at 09:30.