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AMIST appoints new chief executive officer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust (AMIST) today announced the appointment of John Livanas as chief executive officer. John Livanas was previously general manager of the $12 billion FuturePlus. The previous chief executive of AMIST, Paul ...

Here, kitty kitty

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
... author and competition entrant, Kay Kessing, they taste more like rabbit. According to the report, Kessing said, "It's a white meat, they vary a lot; the first cat I cooked didn't have a strong flavour and I put a lot of ingredients with it and that ...

Club Plus appoints chief executive

Club Plus Super, the $1.2 billion fund for ClubsNSW and ClubsACT, has recruited the long time head of the Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust (AMIST) as its chief executive. Paul Cahill, who will join the fund in November, spent 12 years at ...

China's rates up again

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
... economists were expecting a strong reaction by China's central bank, there were others, looking at recent increases in grain and meat prices, expecting a softer approach. China's ex-food CPI rose just 0.7 per cent equating to a moderate 1 per cent year ...

China's GDP and CPI blowout

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... David de Garis of nabCapital research, "the recent acceleration in consumer prices reflects higher food price (for example meat and grain prices) owing to supply-side shortages. Ex-food CPI rose a much more subdued 0.7% to June, actually down from 1.0% ...

Macq steaks $700m fund

Macquarie predicts Australia's livestock businesses will benefit from the growing world consumption of red meat and has set up a fund that will target $700 million of acquisition opportunities in the sector. Macquarie Pastoral Fund was launched in January ...

Economic round-up: Umbrellas up, ice creams down

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2007

Super fees jump triple inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007
... increased fees by an average 21 per cent, about seven times the inflation rate. The lowest cost fund in Australia is the Meat Industry Super Fund with a Total Expense Ratio (TER) of only 25 basis points. The lowest cost public offer fund is First State ...

Aust Meat Industry Super Trust opens to the public

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
The Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust (AMIST) has just gone public offer - good news for those who have been banging on the door for some time trying to join the fund. Fund secretary, Paul Cahill, said AMIST had received a lot of interest ...

More meat in Meat Super

A little known super fund for the meat industry holds the title of the "lowest cost fund in the country" with above average returns to boot. The Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund (MIESF), which manages super for red meat abattoirs and poultry ...