NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
June 2009	26 August 2009
September 2009	25 November 2009

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SUMMARY COMMENTARY


KEY FIGURES

Securitisers, Australia - Assets and Liabilities
			Dec Qtr 2008	Mar Qtr 2009	Dec Qtr 2008 to Mar Qtr 2009
			$m	$m	% change
Total assets at end of qtr			224 516	204 340	-9.0
of which
	Mortgages
		Residential	155 652	146 818	-5.7
		Non-residential	8 102	7 250	-10.5
Total liabilities at end of qtr			224 516	204 340	-9.0
of which
	Asset backed Securities
		Issued domestically	138 941	125 061	-10.0
		Issued off shore	69 027	64 708	-6.3

Assets of Securitisers

At the end of the March quarter 2009, total assets of Australian securitisers were $204.3b, down $20.2b (9.0%) on the December quarter 2008 total. This is the seventh consecutive fall for the assets of Australian securitisers.

Mortgage assets, which accounted for 75.4% of total assets, were $154.1b at 31 March 2009, a decrease of $9.7b (5.9%) during the quarter.

During the March quarter 2009 the decrease in total assets was due primarily to decreases in residential mortgages (down $8.8b, 5.7%) and holdings of long term securities asset backed bonds (down $4.7b, 26.5%).

Liabilities of Securitisers

The decrease of $20.2b in total liabilities during the March quarter 2009 was due to decreases in long term asset backed securities issued in Australia (down $8.5b, 7.9%), short term asset backed securities issued in Australia (down $5.3b, 17.4%) and asset backed securities issued overseas (down $4.3b, 6.3%). These were slightly offset by an increase in loans and placements (up $2.1b, 30.5%).

The fallout of events in global financial markets has continued to limit the ability of securitisers to issue debt securities during the March quarter 2009.

Asset backed securities issued overseas as a proportion of total liabilities increased to 31.7% in the March quarter 2009, up 0.9 percentage points on the December quarter 2008.

Asset backed securities issued domestically as a proportion of total liabilities decreased to 61.2% , down 0.7 percentage points on the December quarter 2008.