Macquarie Group Limited — Capital/Financing Update 2014

Dec 11, 2014

Macquarie Group Limited ABN 94 122 169 279

50 Martin Place Telephone (61 2) 8232 3333 Sydney NSW 2000 Facsimile (61 2) 8232 7780 GPO Box 4294 Internet http://www.macquarie.com.au Sydney NSW 1164 AUSTRALIA

12 December 2014

Company Announcements Office Australian Securities Exchange Limited 20 Bridge Street Sydney NSW 2000

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Dear Sir/Madam

• Macquarie Group Limited Issued Ordinary Capital and Convertible Securities Update – 1 November to 30 November 2014.

Since the last notification to the ASX on 14 November 2014 of the positions as at 31 October 2014:

• a) 4,160 fully paid ordinary shares in Macquarie Group Limited (“MGL shares”) were issued on exercise of Deferred Share Units (“DSUs”) granted under the Macquarie Group Employee Retained Equity Plan (“MEREP”);

• b) 9,495 MGL shares were issued at a price of $80.30 each on retraction of exchangeable shares issued by Macquarie Capital Acquisitions (Canada) Limited, a subsidiary of MGL, pursuant to the retention agreements entered into with key Orion Financial Inc. (“Orion”) employees shortly after the completion of the acquisition by Macquarie of Orion in December 2007 (“Orion Exchangeable shares”); and

• c) 141,421 MGL shares were issued at a price of $50.80 each on retraction of exchangeable shares issued by Macquarie Capital Acquisitions (Canada) No.2 Limited, a subsidiary of MGL, pursuant to retention agreements entered into with key employees as part of the acquisition of Tristone Capital Global Inc. (“Tristone”) in August 2009 (“Tristone Exchangeable shares”).

Therefore, as at 30 November 2014, the number of MGL shares was 321,358,070.

Since the notification to the ASX on 14 November 2014 of the positions as at 31 October 2014, the following further movements in convertible securities have occurred pursuant to the MEREP:

• 2,904 DSUs have been granted;

• 269,711 DSUs have been exercised; and

• 3,512 DSUs have expired.

Macquarie Group Limited is not an authorised deposit-taking institution for the purposes of the Banking Act 1959 (Cwth), and its obligations do not represent deposits or other liabilities of Macquarie Bank Limited ABN 46 008 583 542 (MBL). MBL does not guarantee or otherwise provide assurance in respect of the obligations of Macquarie Group Limited.

Macquarie Group Limited

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Therefore, as at 30 November 2014:

• the number of DSUs on issue was 3,756,826; and

• the number of PSUs on issue was 1,824,542.

The total number of ordinary shares on issue noted above includes 2,791,098 ordinary shares held by the MEREP Trustee in a reserve account which may be used to satisfy the obligations of MGL in respect of DSUs issued under the MEREP, including allocation of ordinary shares on exercise of DSUs.

As at 30 November 2014 there were 141,597 Orion Exchangeable Shares on issue and 92,563 Tristone Exchangeable Shares on issue. There are also a further 11,295 Exchangeable Shares on issue, resulting from the exercise of retention options previously held under retention agreements with key former Tristone employees. Each of the Exchangeable Shares may be exchanged into 0.9438 of a MGL share (in accordance with their terms of issue) following the MGL share consolidation in December 2013.

Yours faithfully

Dennis Leong Company Secretary

Macquarie Group Limited is not an authorised deposit-taking institution for the purposes of the Banking Act 1959 (Cwth), and its obligations do not represent deposits or other liabilities of Macquarie Bank Limited ABN 46 008 583 542 (MBL). MBL does not guarantee or otherwise provide assurance in respect of the obligations of Macquarie Group Limited.