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Waiting for the RBA to dance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... to 5 per cent." Household behaviour, they are a-changin'. Only yesterday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) gave meat to this observation. You saw the headlines, "Retail sales in worst showing since 1984" (theage.com.au). Yes, retail spending ...

AMIST Super appoints new CEO

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
James Thomas has been appointed to the role of chief executive officer for AMIST Super, the $1.2 billion meat industry fund. The previous CEO of AMIST Super, John Livanas, resigned to take over as chief executive officer of State Super on October 24. ...

Bigger super funds may not be cheaper for members

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2011
... has said the idea that bigger super funds are cheaper for members is unfounded. John Livanas, chief executive of $1 billion meat industry fund AMIST Super, said smaller can be better and that mergers for the sake of merging was not always the best idea ...

Super funds talk debt ructions and increasing pensions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... lively discussions at the institutional investor round table session, Megan Pham, chief investment officer of AMIST Super, the meat industry fund, said her biggest concern right now was macroeconomic risks. "The number one threat is not inflation but ...

Aust Unity sets its sights on instos

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... the second institutional mandate on the cards for AUI. The Melbourne-based fund manager has a mandate with the Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust, which invests in AUI's retail property strategy. The firm's plans come at a time when institutional ...

Food security back on the radar

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... Share fund invests in companies involved in the production, processing and distribution of soft commodities such as grain, meat, fish and forestry products. Skye Macpherson, portfolio manager, global resources and co-portfolio manager of the soft commodities ...

CFSGAM targets global trends with commodities fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... yesterday, invests in companies involved in the production, processing and distribution of soft commodities such as grain, meat, fish and forestry products. Skye Macpherson, portfolio manager, global resources and co-portfolio manager of the soft commodities ...

AMIST awards Vanguard mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
Meat industry super fund AMIST ploughs more money in international equities with a fresh mandate awarded to Vanguard. John Livanas, chief executive of the fund, said this is the first time the super fund has invested with an index manager - aside from ...

Macquarie wins award for agricultural fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... of land and livestock enterprises with the scale and spread to capitalise on growth in global demand demand for Australian meat," he said. Currently, the properties owned by Paraway Pastoral Company have the combined carrying capacility of 170,000 head ...

AMIST tilts $28m into equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 AUG 2009
The $685 million meat industry super fund AMIST has added $28 million to four existing Australian and international equity fund mandates. John Livanas, chief executive at AMIST, said the fund topped-up a number of existing mandates to increase the fund's ...