Employee representation and pension fund governance in Australia

Bernard Mees

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2021, vol. 42, issue 1, 75-91

Abstract: Representative arrangements are widely employed in the governance of occupational pension funds, particularly in Australia where a sector of jointly employer/employee-sponsored ‘industry funds’ was established during the 1980s. The jointly governed industry funds are privately owned wealth-management businesses and have routinely outperformed the retirement-savings schemes run by the large listed for-profit providers. Seeking to understand why these examples of labourist ‘alternative organisations’ have outperformed more traditionally governed Australian wealth-management firms is the main purpose of this article.

Keywords: Governance; industrial democracy; investment; pension funds; unions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X17752265

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