Businessweek

Macquarie Group Limited provides banking, financial, advisory, investment, and funds management services worldwide. Segments The company operates in five groups and two divisions, including: Macquarie Capital, Treasury and Commodities, Macquarie Securities Group, Banking and Financial Services, Macquarie Funds Group, Corporate and Asset Finance Division, and Real Estate Banking Division. Macquarie Capital Macquarie Capital includes the company's corporate advisory, equity underwriting and specialized funds management businesses. Macquarie Capital Advisers provides advisory and capital raising services to corporate and government clients involved in public mergers and acquisitions, private treaty acquisitions and divestments, debt and equity fund raising and corporate restructuring. Advisory activities are aligned into industry groups, reflecting key areas of expertise in infrastructure and utilities, resources, telecommunications, media, entertainment and technology (TMET), real estate, industrials and financial institutions. Macquarie Capital Advisers also encompasses Macquarie Capital Funds which manages a range of specialist funds, including infrastructure and real estate funds. Treasury and Commodities Treasury and Commodities Group conducts trading, financing and related activities in a range of financial and commodity markets with a focus of client service provision. Underlying services encompass foreign exchange, debt and futures, as well as dealing in agriculture, environmental, freight, energy and metals markets. The Energy Markets Division provides risk management solutions to producers, consumers and investors in the energy sector across a range of energy products and acts as a trading intermediary in gas and power in the U.S. and Europe. The Foreign Exchange Division provides 24-hour interbank FX services in all currency pairs to institutional clients in Australia and globally and accesses retail FX volumes through service provision to retail platforms and investment in those platforms. The Metals and Energy Capital Division provides equity and debt finance globally to the metals and energy sector, as well as providing trading and hedging services to the base and precious metals sectors. Agricultural Commodities and Investor Products Division provides risk management, structured financing and physical commodity solutions across agricultural commodities globally and selected dry and wet freight routes. The Futures Division provides a range of broking and clearing services for Australian and international futures exchanges. The division provides these services in the Australian market and is selectively pursuing opportunities in offshore markets. The Debt Markets Division arranges and places primary market debt for clients and provides secondary market liquidity in government, inflation-linked, corporate, global, mortgage and asset-backed securities. Central Division is an incubator for various non-division-specific, early-stage or cross-divisional initiatives. This includes Environmental Financial Products, the U.S. based Credit Trading, Emerging Markets and the management of joint ventures and alliances. Macquarie Securities Group Macquarie Securities Group includes equity-linked investments, trading products, risk management services, equity finance, arbitrage trading and synthetic products as well as a full service institutional cash equities broker in the Asia- Pacific region and specialized in the rest of the world. It provides an Equity Capital Markets service through a joint venture with Macquarie Capital Advisers. The Cash Division operates as a full-service institutional cash equities broker in the Asia-Pacific region. In the rest of the world it operates as a specialized institutional cash equities broker. It provides Equity Capital Markets products and services through a joint venture with Macquarie Capital Advisers. The Delta1 Division combines the Group's equity finance, arbitrage trading and synthetic product businesses. The division services institutional and hedge fund clients across a range of markets through a variety of products and services