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 - Q4 2025
Publication date: 27 February 2026
- Total assets of Irish insurance corporations (ICs) increased by €4 billion on a quarterly basis and stood at €491 billion in Q4 2025, as shown in Chart 1. Growth was primarily through investment fund shares/units holdings, which increased by €5.6 billion from Q3 2025, representing a 2.8% rise. Debt securities (+€2.6 billion) and equity (+€2.5 billion) also contributed to the growth but declining loan assets (-€5.1 billion) partially offset these gains. Investment fund shares/units holdings also drove growth on an annual basis, increasing by €16.5 billion from Q4 2024.
- Insurance corporations’ liabilities grew on a quarterly basis in Q4 2025, as shown in Chart 2. This reflected a €10.4 billion increase in unit linked life insurance technical reserves (ITRs)1, which was partly offset by a €6.8 billion decline in non-life ITRs. Unit linked life ITRs also represented the largest annual increase, growing by €29.6 billion from Q4 2024. Non-life ITRs, while declining quarter-on-quarter, increased slightly on an annual basis, up €2.9 billion from Q4 2024.
- Investment fund holdings are the largest component of the IC’s asset mix, accounting for 42% of total assets. A breakdown of investment funds by type is shown in Chart 3. Holdings are primarily concentrated in equity (40.1%), bond (24.4%) and mixed funds (16.8%). All types of investment funds grew from Q3 2025, with the exception of MMF funds and Mixed funds, which declined by 0.5% and 2% respectively.
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Notes
[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 67 KB
Premiums, Claims and Acquisition Expenses Statistics | xls 26 KB
Explanatory Notes - Insurance Statistics | pdf 475 KB