Insurance Corporations Statistics – Q3 2019

Publication date: 06 December 2019 

Key Points

• The Insurance Corporation (IC) Statistics have been expanded to include additional details concerning the issuers of equity holdings, the maturity brackets and issuers of debt security holdings.
• Debt securities with original maturities over 2 years account for over 95 per cent of debt securities held by ICs.
• Equity holdings of ICs issued by Euro area residents increased by €1.5 billion over the year to stand at €10.5 billion.

Summary Charts

Chart 1: Over 70 per cent of equities held by ICs are issued by non-Euro area residents, Q3 2019

Chart 2: Equity issued by Non-Financial Corporations (NFCs) accounts for 74 per cent of all equity held by ICs, Q3 2019

Chart 3: Holdings of debt securities with original maturities of less than two years has fallen by €800 million over the year to stand at €2.4 billion

This statistical release references outstanding amounts for assets and liabilities of insurance corporations resident in Ireland.

Related Data Sets

Download the Insurance Corporation Statistics tables in CSV format.