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ABC Australian Broadcasting Corporation

AEP Allco Equity Partners

AFR Australian Financial Review

AGM Annual General Meeting

APRA Australian Prudential Regulation Authority

AREH Asian Renewable Energy Hub

ASC Australian Securities Commission

ASIC Australian Securities and Investments Commission

ASX Australian Stock Exchange (until 2006); Australian Securities Exchange (2006 onwards).

ATO Australian Taxation Office

BCIMC British Columbia Investment Management Corporation

BFS Banking and Financial Services

BHP Broken Hill Proprietary

BT/BTIB Bankers Trust/Bankers Trust Investment Bank

CAF Corporate and Asset Finance

CBD central business district

CDO collateralised debt obligation

CDPQ Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec  

CDS credit default swap 

CEW Chief Executive Women 

CFO chief financial officer 

CGM Commodities and Global Markets 

CMA cash management account 

CMT Cash Management Trust 

COO chief operating officer 

CPI consumer price index 

CPU central processing unit 

DCM debt capital markets 

EBITDA earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortisation 

ECM equity capital markets 

EMEA Europe, the Middle East and Africa 

ESG environmental, social, governance 

ETF exchange-traded funds 

EU enforceable undertaking 

FBO fixed base operations 

FIBRA Fideicomiso de Inversion en Bienes Raices (a Mexican real estate investment trust) 

FSHD facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 

FSS Financial Supervisory Service (in South Korea) 

GFC global financial crisis 

GIB Green Investment Bank 

GIG Green Investment Group 

HR human resources 

IMF International Monetary Fund 

IPO initial public offering 

IPTA Industrial Property Trust of Australia 

IT information technology 

ITA Infrastructure Trust of Australia 

KOSPI Korea Composite Stock Price Index 

LNG liquefied natural gas 

LSE London Stock Exchange 

M&A mergers and acquisitions 

MAIF Macquarie Asia Infrastructure Fund 

MAM Macquarie Asset Management 

MAp Macquarie Airports 

MCIG Macquarie Communications Infrastructure Group 

MCW Macquarie CountryWide Trust 

MEAP Macquarie Essential Assets Partnership 

MEIF Macquarie European Infrastructure Funds 

MEL Macquarie Equities Limited 

MFG Macquarie Funds Group 

MIC Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation 

MIG Macquarie Infrastructure Group 

MIP Macquarie Infrastructure Partners 

MIRA Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets 

MKIF Macquarie Korea Infrastructure Fund 

MPW Macquarie Private Wealth 

NAB National Australia Bank 

NOHC non-operating holding company 

NSW New South Wales 

OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 

OBU offshore banking units 

OTPP Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan 

PBL Publishing and Broadcasting Limited 

PPP public–private partnership 

PR public relations 

QC Queen’s Counsel 

RBA Reserve Bank of Australia 

RBS Royal Bank of Scotland 

REIT real estate investment trust 

S&P Standard and Poor’s 

SARS Severe acute respiratory syndrome 

SEATS Stock Exchange Automated Trading System 

TARP Troubled Asset Relief Program 

TMT technology, media, and telecom 

VP vice-president 

WTC World Trade Center