{"id":470544,"date":"2026-02-10T12:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/470544\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:07:08","slug":"macquarie-group-mcq-asx-stress-tests-portfolios-for-software-exposure-and-ai-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/470544\/","title":{"rendered":"Macquarie Group (MCQ ASX) stress tests portfolios for software exposure and AI threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macquarie says it is more rigorously stress testing its growing exposure to software businesses as increasing uncertainty about the impact of artificial intelligence on technology companies hurts valuations and spreads to some of the world\u2019s largest private equity and private credit investors.<\/p>\n<p>Shemara Wikramanayake, the asset management and banking giant\u2019s chief executive, said a quarter of Macquarie\u2019s balance sheet investments and private credit loans involved software-as-a-service businesses. That\u2019s a sector that has been heavily sold off as the market worries that increasingly complex AI platforms will lower revenue growth and, with it, returns.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Macquarie says it is more rigorously stress testing its growing exposure to software businesses as increasing uncertainty about&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-470544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}