Macquarie Group Ltd S/Adr (MQBKY) Q4 2024 Earnings Call

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Good morning everyone and welcome to Macquarie's Financial Year 2024 full year results presentation. Good to see so many of you here. Before we begin today, I would ask that you turn your phones to silent and I would also like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land, the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, pay our respects to their elders past, present and emerging. As is customary, we'll hear today from both our CEO, Shamara Wickramanayake, and our CFO, Alex Harvey, on the results, and then we'll have an opportunity for questions at the end. And I'd also note that probably for the first time since COVID, we've got all of our EC here today in person, so that's great. With that, I will hand over to Shamara. Thank you. Thanks very much, Sam. And I should also note that we have our chair, Glenn Stephenson, the chair of our audit committee, Michelle Hinchcliffe, here in the front row with us, as well as the pleasure of having all of the executive committee with us in person for the first time in ages. So welcome from me as well, everyone. And as usual, before going through the result for this year, I'll just touch on the footprint that we have across our four operating businesses. And as you know, we have very good diversification across those four businesses with four deep areas of expertise that are exposed to structurally very well-growing underlying themes. And those are our Australian digital banking offering, headed up by Greg Ward here, that group. Our global Macquarie asset management business, very strong in private markets, but also public investment, set it up by Ben Way here in the front. Commodities and global markets, which has strength globally, not just across commodities, but also financial markets, and very good runway to grow across all t...