Australian shares

Features and benefits

Trade Australian shares through Macquarie Private Wealth’s full service stockbroking advisers and gain direct access to shares in Australian listed companies.

Investing in Australian shares can enable you to take advantage of opportunities for both short term high-yield or long term capital growth across a diverse range of market sectors and companies.

Macquarie Private Wealth can provide you with the following:

• Access to market expertise and research including real time stock quotes
• Opportunities for investment in both blue chip Australian shares and emerging companies and markets
• Opportunity to balance or diversify your investment portfolio as part of your overall wealth creation strategy

• The option to protect your existing ASX listed shareholdings or exercisable options with a market value of at least $100,000, by investing in the Zero Cost Collar Facility. The Zero Cost Collar Facility allows you to:

  • set a protection level for your shares so that the value of your holding is protected from any share price fall below the protection level
  • access a convenient, low-cost loan facility which you can use to fund the exercise of your share options or to release cash for other purposes
  • benefit from share price growth up to the cap price
• ShareGift Australia provides Australian shareholders with the opportunity to sell their shares and donate the proceeds to charity, without having to pay brokerage fees

Who might this suit?

Australian equities can be considered by investors:

• looking for direct investment opportunities in Australian markets
• looking to strengthen or diversify their investment portfolio
• seeking superior market research, expertise and insights
• looking for advice about investing in Australian shares.