How close did Macquarie get to the edge?
Macquarie: Getting out
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IF MACQUARIE GROUP is at a crossroads, it probably already owns it. The financial services group, best known outside Australia for its infrastructure investments from Sydney Airport to the toll section of the M6 motorway in the UK, has had a difficult year and has seen one part of its model – the satellite fund – run into trouble. It has faced belligerent hedge funds intent on bringing down the stock, and indeed the bank; it has taken billions of dollars of impairment charges on its listed funds; and it has faced a certain local Schadenfreude in a country that shows little warmth for tall poppies.
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