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From 2005 onwards, statistics on Institutional Investors’ assets (Table 7.IA) have been collected in the framework of the System of National Accounts (SNA93).

The publication Institutional Investors - Statistical Yearbook  was discontinued in 2003. 

Purposes of the dataset:
The new database on Institutional investors' assets, Table 7.IA, replaces the former database on Institutional Investors. It constitutes an attempt to better integrate these data in the framework of the System of National Accounts (SNA93).
Institutional Investors' assets are reported by Central Banks or National Statistical Institutes.

Product coverage:
Table 7.IA on financial and non-financial assets of institutional investors includes a detailed breakdown of institutional sectors, such as Investment funds, Insurance companies and Pension funds, and Other forms of institutional savings. This finer breakdown by type of investors has been established with reference to the System of National Accounts (SNA), when possible.

Within Investment funds, one distinguishes Open-end companies, further broken down into Money market funds and Other mutual funds, and Closed-end companies, of which Real estate funds.

Within Insurance companies and pension funds one distinguishes Insurance companies, further broken down into Life insurance companies and Non-life insurance companies, and Autonomous pension funds.

Financial assets included in Table 7.IA correspond to the assets requested in the previous database on Institutional Investors, i.e. Currency and deposits, Securities other than shares, Loans, Shares and other equities and Other financial assets. Moreover, Total non-financial assets are also included.

While the sub-classification of the above financial assets corresponds to SNA93, a further breakdown between assets issued by residents and assets issued by non-residents is reported.