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AMIST offers fee-for-service advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
The $685 million Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust (AMIST) has rolled out a fee-for-service financial advice service to its members. AMIST launched the service in March following increasing member demand for tailored advice and selected ...

AMIST narrows mandate line-up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
The Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust (AMIST) has dropped Legg Mason and PM Capital from its fund manager line-up as part of its investment rationalisation strategy. The $9 million Legg Mason emerging markets mandate was cut two months ago ...

Treasure for trash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
Here comes the meat! US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner finally served up the meat to his 10 February bail-out barbecue fizzler. And the market saw that it was good. Equity markets around the world rallied following the unveiling of the details ...

SuperChoice buys SuperConnect

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... industry super funds, employer groups directly and payroll bureaus including Australian Wealth Management, Skandia and the Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund. "This acquisition will allow SuperChoice to further enhance and expand our online ...

Meat fund invests in high growth

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
The $529 million Meat Industry Employees Superannuation Fund is defying the super industry's flight to cash when it recently introduced a new "high growth" investment option to members. Up until the start of this year, MIESF did not offer investment ...

No meat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
'All normal people love meat. If I went to a barbeque and there was no meat, I would say Yo Goober! Where's the meat? I'm trying to impress people here Lisa. You don't win friends with salad.' Homer Simpson. Equity investors who came to US Treasury ...

Super funds back biotech fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 NOV 2008
Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC), ARIA and Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund are investing in the GBS Venture Partners BioVentures IV fund, which closed with more than $100 million in commitments. Macquarie Group, Quay Partners ...

IFSA slams proposed default fund

ALEX DUNNIN AND RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
... receive SG contributions operating at fee levels as low as 10 basis points. John Livanas, chief executive of the Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust, said such a move would blockade diversity and hamper market efficiency. "Index funds are up ...

India to ban food futures

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... the problem as well as it's changing our food consumption patterns because the more urbanised the world becomes the more meat we eat and the more grain fed beef cattle we need, with the irony that poor third world food consumers are being pushed aside ...

Stagflation cross-winds

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... 2003. Orlic said strong demand growth in China is pushing up the price of oil, metals and foodstuffs. "Problems with pig-meat in China have added to inflation there but growing global shortages of grain has been a major contributing factor," said Orl ...