Insurance Corporations Statistics

Key Points - Q2 2026

Publication date: 28 August 2026

• Total assets of Irish insurance corporations grew by €26 billion on a quarterly basis to reach €521 billion in Q2 2026, as shown in Chart 1. This increase was driven by strong performance in investment funds shares/unit (+€17.7 billion, or 8.6%) and equity (+€9.6 billion, or 11.8%).  These two asset categories also recorded the largest increases on an annual basis, with investment funds shares/units rising by €31 billion (16.2%) and equity climbing by €15.6 billion (20.5%) compared to Q2 2025.
• Insurance corporations’ liabilities increased on a quarterly basis in Q2 2026, as shown in Chart 2. This reflected an 8.1% rise in unit linked life insurance technical reserves (ITRs)¹, corresponding to €27.2 billion. This category also registered the largest year-on-year growth, rising €51.4 billion (16.5%) from Q2 2025. Non-unit linked life ITRs showed a modest quarterly rise in Q2 2026 (+€0.8 billion, or 1.6%) but remained at similar levels to Q2 2025.
• Insurance corporations’ holdings of publicly listed equity totalled €89.4 billion in Q2 2026. A breakdown by issuer country is shown in Chart 3. US shares dominate these holdings, accounting for 53% of the total. Non-eurozone issuer countries combined account for 83.5% of the total (€74.7 billion). Among Eurozone issuer countries, the largest are France and Germany, which account for 3.8% and 3.4% of the total respectively.