NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
March 2014	22 May 2014
June 2014	22 August 2014

REVISIONS

In this issue revisions have been made to the original series as a result of improved reporting of survey data. These revisions have impacted on the assets and liabilities for September 2013.


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SUMMARY COMMENTARY


KEY FIGURES

Securitisers, Australia - Assets and Liabilities(a)
			Sep Qtr 2013	Dec Qtr 2013	Sep Qtr 2013 to Dec Qtr 2013
			$m	$m	%
Total assets at end of qtr			124 616	128 583	3.2
of which
	Mortgages
		Residential	102 013	103 826	1.8
		Non-residential	2 040	2 013	-1.3
Total liabilities at end of qtr			124 616	128 583	3.2
of which
	Asset backed Securities
		Issued domestically	96 067	98 819	2.9
		Issued off shore	14 179	13 967	-1.5
(a) See paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes for details of the coverage of these statistics.

Assets of Securitisers

As at 31 December 2013, total assets of Australian securitisers were $128.6b, up $4.0b (3.2%) on 30 September 2013.

During the December quarter 2013, the rise in total assets was due to increases in residential mortgage loans (up $1.8b, 1.8%), other loans (up $1.0b, 7.5%) and cash and deposits (up $0.5b, 12.4%).

Residential and non-residential mortgage assets, which accounted for 82.3% of total assets, were $105.8b as at 31 December 2013, an increase of $1.8b (1.7%) during the quarter.

Liabilities of Securitisers

As at 31 December 2013, total liabilities of Australian securitisers were $128.6b, up $4.0b (3.2%) on 30 September 2013. The rise in total liabilities was due to increases in long term asset backed securities issued in Australia (up $3.3b, 3.6%) and loans and placements (up $1.1b, 8.6%). These were partially offset by a decrease in short-term asset backed securities issued in Australia (down $0.5b, 9.6%).

As at 31 December 2013, asset backed securities issued overseas as a proportion of total liabilities decreased to 10.9%, down 0.5 percentage points on the September quarter 2013 percentage of 11.4%. Asset backed securities issued domestically as a proportion of total liabilities declined to 76.9%, down 0.2% percentage points on the September quarter 2013 percentage of 77.1%.