You'll all be shocked to hear that your Steam Packet fares have condemned the top twelve executives in the Macquarie Group to share just £5,600,000 in hand-outs in 2008. That's not even half a million pounds each. They'll really be watching the pennies in their homes.

"The figures show Macquarie Group's net profit after tax was just over £428 million, down 52% on last year's figure of £885 million.

Pay for the group's senior management slumped 91% in 2008.

The top twelve executives shared £5.6 million, well down on 2007's total of £61.3 million."