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Macquarie, Aware ready Vocus break-up play

Anthony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood

May 3, 2022 – 12.01pm

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There are no flies on Macquarie Asset Management’s Vocus Group.

Only months after bulking up Vocus’ New Zealand business, now called Orcon, Vocus boss Kevin Russell has lobbed the company’s retail arm into the initial public offering pipeline.

Anthony Macdonald is a Chanticleer columnist. He is a former Street Talk co-editor and has 10 years' experience as a business journalist and worked at PwC, auditing and advising financial services companies.

Sarah Thompson has co-edited Street Talk since 2009, specialising in private equity, investment banking, M&A and equity capital markets stories. Prior to that, she spent 10 years in London as a markets and M&A reporter at Bloomberg and Dow Jones.

Kanika Sood is a journalist based in Sydney who writes for the Street Talk column.