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Employee representation and pension fund governance in Australia

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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.

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  • Bernard Mees, 2021. "Employee representation and pension fund governance in Australia," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 42(1), pages 75-91, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:42:y:2021:i:1:p:75-91
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X17752265
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