Macquarie Securities

Macquarie Securities has one of the largest Equities Research and Sales teams dedicated to the Asia Pacific region with a total of 850 staff, including 215 equity research analysts and 250 sales and sales trading staff covering 997 stocks.

Macquarie Securities has membership of 18 exchanges, and distribution capabilities into all the world's major financial centres.

We have offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Auckland, Hong Kong, Singapore, Bangkok, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo, Shanghai, Mumbai, London, Frankfurt, Geneva, New York, San Francisco, Boston and Johannesburg.

Macquarie Securities Malaysia has a staff of 12 that will handle sales, dealing and research. With five senior analysts covering 40 stocks, we cover 75 per cent of the Kuala Lumpur Composite Index for the planned brokerage business.

Our research presence in Malaysia effectively dates back to 1989 and Macquarie acquired this business from ING in 2004. The breadth of sectors currently covered by our analysts includes banks, telecommunications, utilities, gaming, property, automobiles, media, oil and gas, and plantations.

As one of only five foreign brokers to be granted approval to operate in Malaysia, Macquarie Securities expects to be trading directly in the Malaysian market by the end of October 2005.