Macquarie : securities strengthens research coverage of business services

New York, 02 Aug 2016

Macquarie Securities, the institutional equities arm of Macquarie Group ('Macquarie') (ASX: MQG; ADR: MQBKY), today announced the appointment of Hamzah Mazari as Senior Analyst covering Business Services, including staffing, information, waste, environmental, education and other professional services.

Mr. Mazari joins from Sterne Agee/CRT, where he covered a range of diversified services verticals. Prior to CRT, he was in a senior strategy role at Nuverra Environmental Solutions, and spent nine years at Credit Suisse covering business services and industrial sectors. He has been recognized with a number of top industry rankings including #2 in the 2014 Institutional Investor All America Research Team for Business, Professional & Education Services and #2 in the 2013 Greenwich Associates Survey for Americas Best Stock Analysts in the Commercial & Consumer Services sector. He holds a BA in Economics from Stanford University and is a Chartered Public Accountant.

Christine Farkas, Managing Director and Head of US Research at Macquarie Securities said: 'We are delighted to have Hamzah join our business and professional services research team. As evidenced from industry accolades and surveys, he is a highly regarded professional who has been recognized for his client advice, strong analyses and deep corporate access.'

About Macquarie Group
Macquarie Group (Macquarie) is a global provider of banking, financial, advisory, investment and funds management services. Macquarie's main business focus is making returns by providing a diversified range of services to clients. Macquarie acts on behalf of institutional, corporate and retail clients and counterparties around the world. Founded in 1969, Macquarie operates in more than 70 office locations in 28 countries.Macquarie employs more than 14,000 people and has assets under management of over $357 billion (as of March 31, 2016).

Macquarie Securities Group operates as a global institutional securities house covering sales, research, ECM, execution and derivatives activities, and offers full-service cash equities in Australia, Asia, South Africa and Canada with specialized offerings in the US and Europe. Macquarie Securities Group operates in the US as Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc., a member of FINRA and SIPC.

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