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  • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
    UK energy
    Macquarie looks to cut stake in UK’s biggest gas network Cadent

    Sale will be a key test of investor appetite for gas infrastructure as Britain tries to shift to renewables

    A coffee maker being heated on a gas kitchen stove
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Nick O’Kane: Macquarie’s best-paid manager bows out of ‘millionaires factory’

    Australian bank’s commodities chief earned A$58mn last year as the energy trading business he built flourished

    A montage featuring O’Kane and Macquarie’s “holey dollar” logo
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Star Macquarie banker who earned more than CEO quits after 28 years

    Nick O’Kane is leaving after building booming commodities division at Australian group

    Nick O’Kane and Shemara Wikramanayake
  • Monday, 22 January, 2024
    Macquarie raises record €8bn for Europe infrastructure fund

    Australian group’s new vehicle marks latest sign of investor appetite for critical assets

    Virtus data centers
  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    Exchange traded funds
    Macquarie Asset Management launches first Australian active ETFs

    The funds face stiff competition from other active ETF managers

    A cyclist is reflected in a window of the Australian Securities Exchange
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Millionaires’ Factory — the rise and rise of Macquarie

    Joyce Moullakis and Chris Wright trace how a small Australian merchant bank became a global behemoth

  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    UK energy
    Macquarie takes further control of Britain’s gas network

    World’s biggest infrastructure investor raises stake in National Gas and bets on bigger role for hydrogen

    Macquarie’s logo
  • Monday, 10 July, 2023
    LexThames Water PLC
    Thames Water: capitalist cistern cracked by implicit contradictions Premium content

    The UK utility is a case study in some of the worst aspects of private equity-style financial engineering

    Repair site signage in London of the UK utility Thames Water
  • Friday, 7 July, 2023
    Southern Water Ltd
    Southern Water announces £550mn investment from Macquarie

    Latest UK water utility to seek additional cash as concerns grow about sector’s financial health

    Running tap
  • Thursday, 29 June, 2023
    ExplainerThames Water PLC
    Why Thames Water is under growing strain

    Cost of utility’s £16bn debt has surpassed price increases it has been able to pass on to consumers

    A Thames Water tender
  • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
    Due Diligence
    Private equity’s field of dreams Premium content

    Plus, Macquarie’s model for turning infrastructure into a lucrative asset and private credit targets blue-chip companies

    Due Diligence logo
  • Tuesday, 27 June, 2023
    The Big Read
    Managed by Macquarie: the Australian group with a grip on global infrastructure

    The investment management company was a pioneer in turning public utilities into lucrative assets, but does that model make for good policy?

    Montage image showing Shemara Wikramanayake, chief executive of Macquarie, some pipes and the Australian flag
  • Friday, 5 May, 2023
    Macquarie commodities head’s $39mn payout beats CEO’s after record group profit

    Nick O’Kane’s pay exceeds that of Shemara Wikramanayake for second year on back of strong trading business

    Nick O’Kane, left, Shemara Wikramanayake, right,
  • Friday, 28 October, 2022
    Macquarie warns of US recession as energy hedges drive up profits

    Commodities business offsets decline in dealmaking at Australia’s largest investment bank

    Macquarie chief executive Shemara Wikramanayake
  • Monday, 8 August, 2022
    Veolia Environnement VE SA
    Veolia to sell Suez’s UK waste business for €2.4bn

    Deal with Macquarie could be derailed if Suez exercises right of first refusal on disposal

    A Veolia waste management truck in England
  • Sunday, 7 August, 2022
    National Grid PLC
    UK to hold national security review of £4.2bn deal for key gas network

    Government to use new powers to scrutinise sale of critical energy infrastructure by National Grid to Macquarie-led group

    Dials and valves on a section of a gas pipeline at a National Grid facility
  • Tuesday, 5 July, 2022
    Renewable energy
    Macquarie and Moelis hired to raise $20bn for world’s longest undersea power line

    Solar project will test Australia’s ambitions to become a clean energy exporter

    The logo of Australia’s investment bank Macquarie Group
  • Monday, 4 July, 2022
    UK Power Networks Holdings Ltd
    £15bn deal for UK Power Networks collapses after owner lifts price

    KKR and Macquarie walk away after Li Ka-shing group decided inflation had increased the electricity distributor’s value

    A row of electricity pylons against a twilight sky
  • Friday, 6 May, 2022
    Macquarie profits hit record on market volatility and M&A boom

    Market chaos leads to bumper earnings but Australian bank warns of uncertain year ahead

    Macquarie’s logo
  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    News in-depthArchegos Capital Management
    Why did Wall Street loan billions to alleged fraudster Bill Hwang?

    Federal indictment against Archegos founder shines light on risk controls at sophisticated trading desks

    Bill Hwang
  • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
    Brookfield Asset Management Inc
    Brookfield pips Macquarie in $2.7bn move to buy Australian telecoms group Uniti

    Canadian investment giant’s deal underlines mergers and acquisitions boom in country

    Brookfield Asset Management’s logo is seen on a mobile phone and a computer screen
  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    Telecoms
    Australian pension fund and Singtel buy mobile tower group for $2.7bn

    Acquisition of Axicom from investment bank Macquarie follows funds buying up infrastructure assets

    Telecommunication mast with microwave link and TV transmitter antennas
  • Sunday, 27 March, 2022
    European companies
    Macquarie to buy £4.2bn controlling stake in UK gas network

    Sale by National Grid values transmission and metering business at £9.6bn

    A hydrogen power grid
  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    UK energy
    KKR and Macquarie in talks to buy UK Power Networks

    Business could be valued at about £15bn in fresh sign of private equity appetite for UK infrastructure

    electricity pylons near Edinburgh
  • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
    News in-depthBen Houchen
    Johnson ally’s regeneration plan sets up battle with Brookfield

    Houchen’s move to secure control of ports company is far from assured of success

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