NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
June 2014	22 August 2014
September 2014	21 November 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 December 2013 and September 2013.


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SUMMARY COMMENTARY


KEY FIGURES

Securitisers, Australia - Assets and Liabilities(a)
			Dec Qtr 2013	Mar Qtr 2014	Dec Qtr 2013 to Mar Qtr 2014
			$m	$m	%
Total assets at end of qtr			128 748	127 494	-1.0
of which
	Mortgages
		Residential	103 940	103 197	-0.7
		Non-residential	2 047	1 994	-2.6
Total liabilities at end of qtr			128 748	127 494	-1.0
of which
	Asset backed Securities
		Issued domestically	99 098	98 749	-0.4
		Issued off shore	13 967	12 746	-8.7
(a) See paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes for details of the coverage of these statistics.

Assets of Securitisers

As at 31 March 2014, total assets of Australian securitisers were $127.5b, down $1.3b (1.0%) on 31 December 2013.

During the March quarter 2014, the fall in total assets was due to decreases in residential mortgage loans (down $0.7b, 0.7%), other loans (down $0.5b, 3.6%) and other assets (down $0.1b, 9.7%).

Residential and non-residential mortgage assets, which accounted for 82.5% of total assets, were $105.2b as at 31 March 2014, a decrease of $0.8b (0.8%) during the quarter.

Liabilities of Securitisers

As at 31 March 2014, total liabilities of Australian securitisers were $127.5b, down $1.3b (1.0%) on 31 December 2013. The fall in total liabilities was due to decreases in asset backed securities, issued overseas (down $1.2b, 8.7%), and short term asset-backed securities issued in Australia (down $0.5b, 10.0%).

As at 31 March 2014, asset backed securities issued overseas as a proportion of total liabilities decreased to 10.0%, down 0.8 percentage points on the December quarter 2013 percentage of 10.8%. Asset backed securities issued domestically as a proportion of total liabilities increased to 77.5%, up 0.5% percentage points on the December quarter 2013 percentage of 77.0%.