Globally, Macquarie Funds Group offers tailored investment solutions for investors, such as superannuation funds, banks, insurance companies, government bodies, corporate treasuries, family offices and individuals.

As one of Australia's leading fund managers, with over 25 years of funds management experience and over A$209.9 billion (S$269.8 billion¹) under management we have built a reputation for innovation, client focus and disciplined investment processes.

We seek opportunities to apply our innovative product development, investment expertise and leading systems in selected international markets where we can add real value. Our people, capabilities and technologies set standards for success worldwide.

We manage portfolios across all major asset classes including cash, currency management, fixed income, equities, REITs, hedge funds, commodities and private equity. In each of these asset classes, we offer a range of investment styles across the risk spectrum and pricing structures. Our total approach to understanding and managing risk enables us to deliver investments across a full spectrum of risk/return profiles in all major asset classes to meet different investors' needs

Investment Philosophy

We actively seek to add value for our clients' portfolios. This is at the core of our investment philosophy, which recognises that a fundamental factor in investment markets is constant change, providing opportunities to create value through insight and decisive action.

• Structural change is constantly reshaping economies, industries and companies. We recognise that in this environment investors do not, and cannot have perfect forecasts about markets or economies or full knowledge about the forces that are creating these changes.
• Investors' uncertainty about how market prices are determined results in the mispricing of assets in markets. This explains the volatility we often see in markets. Markets misprice not because investors act irrationally, but because the pace of structural change means that at any one time, most investors do not have sufficient information to determine the true price of an asset.
• We aim to take advantage of these gaps in investor decision making. By applying a rigorous and disciplined approach to analysing markets and understanding structural changes, our active investment management aims to convert the market's mispricing into opportunities to add value for our clients' investment portfolios.

Our approach to risk management

Macquarie is noted for its leadership in risk management and compliance.

We have a well resourced independent legal and risk management team within Macquarie Funds Management that develops and operates our risk management systems across our funds management operations.

We are continually developing our risk management systems and processes to provide consistent outcomes for your investments.

We use our proprietary risk and compliance framework to comprehensively identify, quantify and qualify all risks, develop appropriate strategies and provide independent monitoring and reporting. We use pre-emptive risk controls to identify risks and avert or mitigate the risks.

Our compliance rules, such as whether a security is eligible for a particular portfolio, are embedded into our dealing and investment systems. Our real-time security screening feeds from an on-line database that includes standardised security and portfolio information and customised client rules.

We use frequent monitoring to minimise risks and costs. Each day our compliance team aims to monitor all funds for compliance breaches that may be caused by market movements, dealer error and cashflows. On any day, the team will test over 10,000 investment rules on over 200 portfolios.

Customised portfolios

Using our total approach to understanding and managing risk, we can tailor an investment portfolio from across the spectrum of risk/return profiles in any major asset class to meet your particular requirements. We can customise the content, frequency and format of your investment reports and have streamlined our legal, risk and compliance systems within the one operating structure so we can deliver flexible service. We use leading technology to offer straight-through dealing and settlement processing.

We invest in developing our client relationships so we can have a true understanding of your requirements. This is the focus of each client's relationship manager, who works alongside the client, to tailor investment portfolios while developing an in-depth knowledge of your business. We select our people for their capacity to reach for excellence and they reflect the exceptional talent and success for which Macquarie is renowned.