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Capital investments 2nd quarter 2017:

Investment assets of insurance companies continue to increase

Statistical news from Statistics Sweden and Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority 2017-09-07 9.30

Insurance companies made net purchases of SEK 37 billion in investment assets in the second quarter of 2017. Together, the net purchases and a positive market development meant that insurance companies’ total investment assets amounted to SEK 4 510 billion at the end of the quarter.

Insurance companies’ total investment assets amounted to SEK 4 510 billion at the end of the quarter. This is an increase of SEK approximately 60 billion, or 1.3 percent, compared with the previous quarter, and an increase of SEK 418 billion, or 10.2 percent, compared with the second quarter of 2016.

Life insurance companies accounted for SEK 3 984 billion of total investment assets, an increase of SEK 59 billion during the quarter. Total investment assets of non-life insurance companies amounted to SEK 526 billion, an increase of SEK 2 billion.

Life insurance companies purchase investment funds

Life insurance companies accounted for most of the net purchases in the quarter, at SEK 35 billion. They made net purchases of SEK 33 billion in shares and participations and these were mostly made in investment funds.

Non-life insurance companies made net purchases of SEK 2 billion in total during the quarter. Mainly reversed repurchases (SEK 4 billion) and an increase of cash and bank assets (SEK 4 billion) contributed to this. However, net sales of bonds and other financial investments, at SEK 3 billion each, contributed to the lesser increase of the portfolio.

Insurance companies' total investment assets
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