For national accounting purposes, financial enterprises are grouped into Depository corporations, Life insurance corporations, Pension funds, Other insurance corporations, Central borrowing authorities and Financial intermediaries not elsewhere classified.
Pension funds cover separately constituted superannuation funds.
Other insurance corporations cover health, export and general insurance companies. Central borrowing authorities are corporations set up by State and Territory Governments to provide liability and asset management services for those governments. Financial intermediaries n.e.c. Table 26.2 shows the relative size of these groups of financial enterprises in terms of their financial assets. This table has been compiled on a consolidated basis, i.e. financial claims between institutions in the same grouping have been eliminated.