Macquarie Asia Equity Research

Macquarie's Asia Equity Research team delivers insights, analysis and thought leadership for our institutional clients. 

Uniquely positioned as one of Asia’s most experienced research houses, our dedicated team has an extensive presence in 14 markets across Asia and covers more than 800 stocks across the region. Its deep connectivity enables a more robust coverage model and produce research on ecosystems and thought leadership for our institutional clients.   

Macquarie ranked 1st in Institutional Investor’s 2024 Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) Regional/Local Broker Rankings1, achieving the highest number of ranked analysts across 12 countries/regions.

In addition to our long-standing country insights, our team also focuses on 4 sector verticals: technology and software, energy transition and commodities (ETAC), consumer and healthcare. Our proprietary data sets and analysis help our clients with their investment processes to generate alpha.

14 markets

On-the-ground insights on strong thematic verticals

800+ stocks2

Differentiated coverage on 800-plus stocks across Asia

50+ analysts

Providing specialist coverage of key verticals including Technology, Energy Transition & Commodities, Consumer, and Healthcare

Macquarie ASEAN Conference 2024

27 – 28 August, Singapore

As political transitions conclude this year, the ASEAN-5 markets are moving from politics to policy implementation. Our 15th ASEAN Conference will explore how reforms will bring the next leg of growth in this dynamic region. The event will feature leading public and private companies, as well as industry experts from ASEAN to discuss the investment opportunities across key sectors in the region, including financials, technology, infrastructure, consumer, energy transition and healthcare.

Our thematic insights

Macquarie Insights is an industry leading research portal covering a full range of sectors and markets.

Access to these reports is restricted to clients of Macquarie.

Data Centre Power Crunch

Our bottom-up forecast shows AI driving datacentre power demand doubling to ~3% of global demand by 2028. This presents immense opportunities for companies that can facilitate this growth, and for those that can invest in them. It also exacerbates challenges for power grids worldwide, already struggling to cope with the energy transition after years of underinvestment.

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AI: Software meets Hardware

We parse the rapidly expanding AI landscape to uncover an initial Generative AI/ LLMs (large language models) total addressable market of $436bn from real demand drivers across software and hardware. Memory is the bottleneck and advanced packaging the workaround (ASE) for Software’s new demands on Asia’s AI hardware ecosystem.

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ICE-to-EV: Going mass market

Despite tempering market expectations, we remain bullish on electric-vehicle industry growth. Demand for electric vehicles (EVs) continues amid falling battery prices, new models, the move to price parity, and increasing fast-charging capacity.

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Our perspectives

The automobile market in Asia is leading the global transition from internal combustion engine vehicles to electric (and hybrid) vehicles. While competition amongst manufacturers, greater consumer choice and maturing battery supply chains have driven the mass market adoption of EVs in China, affordability and the slower pace of behaviour change have seen more limited uptake in developed markets like the Americas and Europe.”

James Hong,
Head of Asia Energy Transition and Commodities 

The recovery of the consumer market in China is likely to be uneven, with high-end and mass-end consumption outperforming that in the middle; lower-tier cities outperforming higher-tier ones; and demand during holiday periods outperforming. Even though we believe service consumption remains resilient and we could see secular recovery with the growth of education, travel and entertainment.”

Linda Huang,
Head of Asia Consumer Research

Asian biopharmaceutical and medical device firms are quickly becoming a key source of innovation as the industry grapples with expiring patents and falling drug prices; the decoupling of the healthcare supply chain is also creating winners and losers. We are excited about the tremendous investment opportunities healthcare in Asia could offer.”

Tony Ren,
Head of Asia Healthcare Research 

The next 5-10 years will see large, sustained investment in technology and chipmaking capacity, aimed at enabling diffusing advanced data processing from the network edge to the cloud. We expect significant activity to be directed at discovering and exploiting at scale the business opportunities enabled by the flood of data from sensors and online activity.”


Damian Thong,
Division Director, Senior Research Analyst

Our people

We aim to provide the most interesting, thought-provoking research in Asia – the kind that investors want to read out of intellectual curiosity, not just for investment ideas.”

Christina Lee,
Head of Asia Content  

Sector leaders

Technology
Arthur Lai

Consumer
Linda Huang

Critical Minerals and Energy Transition
James Hong

ESG
Charles Yonts 

Healthcare
Tony Ren

ASEAN
Jayden Vantarakis

Global Strategy
Viktor Shvets