Auto finance companies, student lenders and credit card issuers joined with a number of other businesses to issue a record $304.70 billion in asset-backed securities during 2005, according to a new Inside MBS & ABS analysis. The non-mortgage ABS shattered its previous record for annual production set in 2003, when volume topped out at $256.89 billion. Last year’s issuance beat that mark by 18.5 percent, and represents a 23.7 percent increase from the total produced… [One data table included]