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Macquarie loses its great problem solver

Nick O’Kane’s pay packet always grabbed the headlines, but his real legacy is to build one of Macquarie’s most important profit engines. 

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Outside Macquarie Group, Nick O’Kane will be best remembered for earning more than his chief executive, Shemara Wikramanayake.

But inside the Millionaire’s Factory, O’Kane will be remembered as the man who turned solving problems for clients in global commodity and financial markets into a sprawling empire, and Macquarie’s biggest contributor to profit.

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James Thomson is senior Chanticleer columnist based in Melbourne. He was the Companies editor and editor of BRW Magazine. Connect with James on Twitter. Email James at j.thomson@afr.com

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