摘要:The contribution deals with investments of commercial insurance companies operating in Slovak,Czech and Austrian insurance market in the period of 2004–2009.First of all,development of technical reserves volume as an important prerequisite of investing of commercial insurance companies will be characterized.After that,we evaluate financial placements and investment activities – ratio of total investments and technical reserves.We also present statistical tests by means of which we examine the existence of the relation between the volume of technical reserves and the volume of investments of commercial insurance companies.