NOTES

FORTHCOMING ISSUES

ISSUE (QUARTER)	Release Date
December 2010	23 February 2011
March 2011	26 May 2011

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SUMMARY COMMENTARY


KEY FIGURES

Securitisers, Australia - Assets and Liabilities(a)
			Jun Qtr 2010	Sep Qtr 2010	Jun Qtr 2010 to Sep Qtr 2010
			$m	$m	%
Total assets at end of qtr			146 737	141 579	-3.5
of which
	Mortgages
		Residential	112 325	108 990	-3.0
		Non-residential	3 991	3 288	-17.6
Total liabilities at end of qtr			146 737	141 579	-3.5
of which
	Asset backed Securities
		Issued domestically	100 363	97 350	-3.0
		Issued off shore	35 779	32 055	-10.4
(a) See paragraph 7 of the Explanatory Notes for details of the coverage of these statistics.

Assets of Securitisers

As at 30 September 2010, total assets of Australian securitisers were $141.6b, down $5.2b (3.5%) on 30 June 2010. This is the thirteenth consecutive quarterly fall for the assets of Australian securitisers.

Mortgage assets, which accounted for 79.3% of total assets, were $112.3b at 30 September 2010, a fall of $4.0b (3.5%) during the quarter.

During the September quarter 2010, the fall in total assets was due primarily to falls in residential mortgages (down $3.3b, 3.0%), the holdings of long term securities, asset backed bonds (down $1.3b, 13.6%), and non-residential mortgages (down $0.7b, 17.6%), while other assets rose (up $1.0b, 30.3%).

Liabilities of Securitisers

The $5.2b decrease in total liabilities during the September quarter 2010 was due primarily to falls in asset backed securities issued overseas (down $3.7b, 10.4%) and short term asset backed securities issued in Australia (down $2.3b, 12.3%).

Asset backed securities issued overseas as a proportion of total liabilities fell to 22.6% in the September quarter 2010, down 1.8 percentage points on the June quarter 2010.

Asset backed securities issued domestically as a proportion of total liabilities rose to 68.8% in the September quarter 2010, up 0.4 percentage points on the June quarter 2010.