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APOLLO Series 2004-2 Trust $700 million mortgage backed securitisation issue launches today

30 August 2004

Macquarie Debt Markets announced today that the Suncorp-Metway Limited sponsored APOLLO MBS Programme has launched a $700 million residential mortgage backed securitisation issue.  This is the seventh issue of the very successful APOLLO MBS programme.

Macquarie is Arranger and Joint-Lead Manager for the transaction.  ABN AMRO is acting as Joint-Lead Manager.

As with previous issues, Suncorp-Metway Limited is the originator and servicer of the mortgage portfolio.  The trustee of the APOLLO Series 2004-2 Trust, Perpetual Trustee Company Limited, is the issuer of the mortgage backed securities. Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s will each assign ratings to the issued securities.

As at  20 August 2004, the mortgage portfolio had the following characteristics1:

 Total portfolio value  $700,085,555
 Average loan size  $161,384.41
 Weighted average current LVR  70.50%
 Number of loans  4,338
 Weighted average seasoning  22.57 months

The APOLLO Series 2004-2 Trust issue comprises the following securities, each with a Final Maturity Date of 22 October  2035:

 Class  Indicative S&P Rating

Indicative Moody's Rating

$M        Expected Average Life
@ 30% CPR (Yrs)
 A  AAA Aaa 673.75  2.41
 B  AA Aa2 26.25  4.48

Mr Kevin Lee, Division Director Debt Finance, at Macquarie said: “We are pleased to be acting as arranger and joint-lead manager for the seventh issue from the APOLLO MBS programme.  As a well established and consistent issuer we expect the issue to be widely supported by investors.   Particularly attractive features of the underlying mortgage portfolio include a bank originated and serviced portfolio, zero low documentation loans, high loan seasoning and a low proportion of investor loans.   The transaction has also been conservatively structured with a level of subordination from Class B Notes which is sufficient to ensure that the ratings of the Class A Notes would survive a simultaneous 1 rating category downgrade (S&P) and 4 notch downgrade (Moody’s) of the ratings of the mortgage insurer of the portfolio, PMI Mortgage Insurance Limited.  Accordingly, in keeping with previous APOLLO issues, we expect the APOLLO Series 2004-2 Trust issue to be warmly received by investors.”

The issue is expected to price on or before 10 September 2004.

1 Please note that these statistics are not based on the final pool cut for the transaction.  The final pool cut will be on 2 September 2004.

For further information, please contact:

Kevin Lee
Division Director, Debt Markets
Macquarie Bank Limited
Tel: (612) 8232 8577
Mobile: (614) 0485 7206


Chris Skilton
Chief Financial Officer
Suncorp-Metway Limited
Tel: (617) 8385 5861


Matthew Russell
Public Relations
Macquarie Bank Limited
Tel: (612) 8232 4102
Mobile: (614) 1069 9532


Rowan Harry
Director, Asset Securitisation
ABN AMRO Bank NV
Tel: (612) 8259 6047


Mathew Sullivan
Media Relations
ABN AMRO Bank NV
Tel: (612) 8259 5127


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