Macquarie Capital

Specialist expertise in Asia-Pacific equities

We have been active in equities markets for more than 25 years, building on our Australian heritage to become an Asia-Pacific specialist.

Uniquely positioned as one of the most experienced research houses in the region, our dedicated team has an extensive presence in Australia, New Zealand and 14 markets across Asia. We provide clients with differentiated insights on over 1,000 Asia-Pacific listed companies and a range of sector thematics. Coupled with our team’s deep connectivity, this sees us offer a more robust coverage model and delivery of ecosystems research and thought leadership for the benefit of our institutional clients. 

Our leading execution team1 offer up a full suite of solutions and are recognised as best in the market when it comes to trust and integrity of process.

 

25+ years

knowledge and experience in Asia-Pacific

4,000+

institutional investor relationships

No. 1

Best overall broker2

Macquarie Equities recognised in the Peter Lee Associates survey

Macquarie Equities has again been recognised as a market leader across ANZ in the 2024 Peter Lee Associates (Coalition Greenwich) survey of Australian institutional equity investors. These rankings reflect our continued strong client commitment and leading position across all aspects of our Equities offering, including Research, Corporate Access, ECM, as well as Sales Trading and Execution.

Trading

No. 1 for Trading Strength Index3

No. 1 for large block trades

No. 1 most actionable IOIs

No. 1 for quality of Electronic Execution

No. 1 for quality of Portfolio Trading

=No. 1 for access to the broadest liquidity pools

Research

No. 2 Research Strength Index

14 analysts ranked top 3;
8 analysts ranked lead3

Corporate Access

No. 1 most useful conferences and seminars

Our areas of focus

We’ve built on our local experience, access and market intelligence to service global institutional clients with market-leading Asia-Pacific research, sales and execution, and provide Asia-Pacific corporates with access to global markets. Our dedicated Corporate Access team delivers conferences, roadshows and bespoke trips across the region and internationally, providing investors with on the ground and virtual access to high quality corporate and industry meetings and events.

In Europe, our strategic partnership with Kepler Cheuvreux provides our investment partners domiciled in Asia-Pacific with access to European equity research and execution services for trading in European equities.

In the US, our Asia-Pacific sales and execution services are complemented by a sector specialist research focus in US Software, Gaming & Leisure, Media and Business Services & Payments.

Through our leading Asia-Pacific platform we offer full-service global execution capability, including block trading, portfolio trading and electronic trading. This includes:

- a specialist high-touch sales trading team leveraging in-depth knowledge of our focus sectors and markets

- an integrated global portfolio trading platform utilising industry-leading technology and a team of dedicated specialists in the US, Europe, Australia and Asia

- a comprehensive algorithmic suite for a range of execution styles, backed by a global sales trading team

- access to market-leading quantitative analytics through our global quant team, providing institutional clients with analysis, insights and tailored quantitative solutions.

Macquarie’s award-winning transition management team works with institutional investors to manage the risks and minimise the costs associated with undertaking a change in asset allocation or portfolio restructure.

We offer an end-to-end project management and execution service, from the planning and trade strategy and costing phase, through execution and reconciliation to comprehensive and transparent reporting. Our clients leverage this capability to effectively project manage and seamlessly implement a range of events including asset allocation changes, fund consolidation or mergers, manager changes, cash inflows/outflows and asset pooling events.

Discover our research

Our Macquarie Insights institutional client portal houses all our authors in one place, providing differentiated insights on thousands of listed companies and thematic sectors across 18 markets.

Our events

Navigate with expertise

Macquarie’s experienced Portfolio Solutions team can help you navigate change with confidence, providing deep expertise in managing the risks and costs of asset allocation, transition management and portfolio restructure.

  1. Peter Lee Associates 2024 Survey of Australian Institutional Investors – All Investors.
  2. Institutional Investor’s 2024 Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) Regional/Local Broker Rankings.
  3. Top 20 Australian Equity Investors.