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Treasury & Commodities Group

Group contribution to profit
based on internal management accounts before tax and profit share

Half year to 30 Sep 2008:    35 per cent
Half year to 30 Sep 2007:      9 per cent
                                                                
Staff :    677
Activities
TCG activities include trading and related activities in a broad range of financial and commodity markets. Activities range across foreign exchange, debt and futures, as well as agriculture, energy and metals commodities. The group provides clients globally with over-the-counter and structured hedging and financing solutions and is recognised as a leader across a number of markets. The group’s focus is on selective geographic expansion and continued product innovation in its chosen markets.
Locations 
Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, UAE, the UK and the US.

Metals and Energy Capital

The Metals and Energy Capital Division provides equity and debt finance to the global metals and energy sectors. It also provides price making, derivative trading and structured hedging facilities to the base and precious metals sectors and, in conjunction with the Energy Markets Division, the energy sector. Operating on a 24-hour basis, the division is a price-maker to the professional market in base and precious metals and is a principal provider of liquidity in the Asian time zone. The Division is an associate broker clearing member of the London Metal Exchange and a full member of the London Bullion Market Association.

Agricultural Commodities and Investor Products

Agricultural Commodities and Investor Products (AGIP) is a global business, with professional staff based in North and South America, the UK and Australia. It provides risk management, structured financing, commodity related investor products and selected physical commodity solutions to a broad customer base. AGIP provides risk management services across agricultural commodities (grains, soy complex, sugar, coffee, cocoa and ethanol) and selected freight routes. The division holds an equity stake in Lansing Ethanol Services, LLC which is active in physical ethanol trading.

Energy Markets

The Energy Markets Division operating in London, Sydney, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Houston, Denver and New York provides risk management and financing solutions to a broad customer base across the energy sector. Customers include producers, refiners, airlines and shipping companies. Global energy products traded include crude oil, fuel oil, heating oil, gasoline, distillates (gas oil and jet fuel), naptha and natural gas. The division is also active in physical gas and electricity trading in North America through subsidiary companies Macquarie Cook Energy and Macquarie Cook.

Foreign Exchange

The Foreign Exchange Division provides 24-hour interbank price-making services in all currency pairs from one central dealing room in Sydney. The division also provides risk management services across all of these currencies and tailor-made products to corporates and institutions in Australia and globally.  The Foreign Exchange Division has diversified to provide wholesale and retail delivery platforms in Australia, New Zealand, Japan and North America and supports a currency derivatives joint venture in the UAE.

Debt 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. It also provides risk management solutions through structured securities and derivative-based products relating to credit and interest rate risk.

Futures

The Futures Division provides a full range of broking and clearing services for Australian and international futures exchanges. The division is a leading provider of these services in the Australian market and a growing provider of services to international markets. It operates from offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, London, New York, Chicago, Hong Kong and Seoul. The division makes extensive use of proprietary technology to provide clients with customised execution and clearing solutions including direct market access and straight-through processing.


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