14 Facts About Macquarie Group

Macquarie Group Limited is an Australian global financial services group.

Macquarie Group became Executive Chairman of Hill Samuel Australia and founded the company from offices at Gold Fields House in Sydney's Circular Quay.

The framework ensured Macquarie Group was not materially exposed to the October 1987 global share market crash.

Macquarie Group continued its overseas expansion during the early 1990s, opening offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Beijing, while extending its Australian operations to Perth and the Gold Coast.

In 1994, Macquarie Group began its infrastructure investment business with the underwriting and placement of publicly listed equity for the Hills Motorway in Sydney.

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Macquarie Group made a number of significant acquisitions, particularly in the US, in the later part of the 2000s.

In 2005, Macquarie Group announced an unsolicited takeover bid for the London Stock Exchange valuing the company at £1.

In 2010, Macquarie Group completed its then largest acquisition with the purchase of Delaware Investments, a leading US-based diversified asset management firm, from Lincoln Financial Group.

In March 2015, Macquarie Group announced the acquisition of a $US4 billion aircraft operating lease portfolio from AWAS Aviation Capital, bringing Macquarie Group's portfolio up to more than 220 aeroplanes.

Also in 2021, Macquarie Group entered into a binding agreement to acquire AMP Capital's Global Equity and Fixed Income business in Australia.

Macquarie Group's Managing Director and CEO is Shemara Wikramanayake, who replaced Nicholas Moore in December 2018.

Macquarie Group holds a number of licences enabling it to conduct activities in the jurisdictions in which it operates and is regulated by a significant number of regulators globally.

Macquarie's philanthropic arm, the Macquarie Group Foundation, has contributed more than A$475 million globally since 1985 with its community investment strategy.

Firm's collection of artworks, the Macquarie Group Collection, established in 1987 to support emerging artists and displayed in more than 40 Macquarie offices worldwide, is one of world's largest corporate collections of Australian art comprising more than 850 individual works.