Insurance Corporations Statistics
Balance sheet (assets and liabilities) data for Insurance Corporations resident in Ireland (ESA 2010 sector S128). Insurance Corporations consist of financial corporations that are principally engaged in financial intermediation as a consequence of the pooling of risks, mainly in the form of direct insurance or reinsurance.
Key Points - Q2 2025
Publication date: 29 August 2025
- Total assets of Irish Insurance Corporations (ICs) stood at €470.5 billion in Q2 2025, as shown in Chart 1. This marked an increase of €6.5 billion from the previous quarter. Investment funds shares/units were the largest contributor to this growth, increasing by €4.2 billion on a quarterly basis. This more than offset last quarters decrease and brought the annual increase to over €20 billion. Debt Securities holdings also returned to growth, increasing by €2.9 billion on a quarterly basis and €8.3 billion annually.
- Insurance Corporations’ liabilities grew on a quarterly basis in Q2 2025, as shown in Chart 2. This primarily reflected an €8.3 billion increase in unit linked life insurance technical reserves (ITRs)1. Non-unit linked life ITRs and non-life ITRs remained at similar levels to Q1 2025, rising by €0.3 billion and €0.6 billion respectively. The growth from Q2 2024 was also primarily driven by unit linked life ITRs, which rose by €34.9 billion over the year.
- Insurance corporations’ holdings of publicly listed equity totalled €72.6 billion in Q2 2025. A breakdown by issuer country is shown in Chart 3. US shares dominate these holdings, accounting for 54.5 per cent of the total. They are followed by Sweden (5.5 per cent), the UK (4.4 per cent) and Japan (4.1 per cent). Among Eurozone issuer countries, the largest are France and Germany, which account for 3.8 and 3.6 of the total respectively.
Summary Charts
Chart 1: Assets of Irish Insurance Corporations
Chart 2: Liabilities of Irish Insurance Corporations
Chart 3: Insurance Corporations’ Publicly Listed Equity Holdings, by Issuer Country
[1] In the Insurance Corporation context [Insurance] Technical Reserves ([I]TRs) are liabilities relating to claims on (re)insurance corporations and assets relating to claims on reinsurance corporations.
Related Data Sets
Download the Insurance Corporation Statistics tables in CSV format.
Balance Sheet of Irish Insurance Corporations | xls 64 KB
Premiums, Claims and Acquisition Expenses Statistics | xls 26 KB
Explanatory Notes - Insurance Statistics | pdf 475 KB