NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
March 2012	24 May 2012
June 2012	23 August 2012

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SUMMARY COMMENTARY


KEY FIGURES

Securitisers, Australia - Assets and Liabilities(a)
			Sep Qtr 2011	Dec Qtr 2011	Sep Qtr 2011 to Dec Qtr 2011
			$m	$m	%
Total assets at end of qtr			134 839	133 748	-0.8
of which
	Mortgages
		Residential	110 719	110 526	-0.2
		Non-residential	2 566	2 627	2.4
Total liabilities at end of qtr			134 839	133 748	-0.8
of which
	Asset backed Securities
		Issued domestically	98 687	99 178	0.5
		Issued off shore	24 312	21 865	-10.1
(a) See paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes for details of the coverage of these statistics.

Assets of Securitisers

As at 31 December 2011, total assets of Australian securitisers were $133.7b, down $1.1b (0.8%) on 30 September 2011.

During the December quarter 2011, the fall in total assets was due primarily to a fall in long-term asset backed bonds (down $1.9b, 50.5%). This fall was partially offset by rises in other loans (up $1.1b, 9.1%) and cash and deposits (up $0.3b, 7.3%).

Mortgage assets, which accounted for 84.6% of total assets, were $113.2b as at 31 December 2011, a fall of $0.1b (0.1%) during the quarter.

Liabilities of Securitisers

As at 31 December 2011, total liabilities of Australian securitisers were $133.7b, down $1.1b (0.8%) on 30 September 2011. The fall in total liabilities was due to falls in short-term asset backed securities issued in Australia (down $2.5b, 24.7%) and asset backed securities issued overseas (down $2.5b, 10.1%). These falls were partially offset by rises in long-term asset backed securities issued in Australia (up $3.0b, 3.4%) and loans and placements (up $0.5b, 6.5%).

Asset backed securities issued overseas as a proportion of total liabilities fell to 16.3% in the December quarter 2011, down 1.7 percentage points on the September quarter 2011.

Asset backed securities issued domestically as a proportion of total liabilities rose to 74.2% in the December quarter 2011, up 1.0 percentage points on the September quarter 2011.