Governance for Growth Investor Campaign

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The Governance for Growth Investor Campaign (GGIC) is a saver-focused policy vision for thriving, growing UK capital markets and companies backed by UK pension schemes and chaired by Railpen. 


 

Collaboration details

GGIC is a UK pension scheme backed campaign that champions the benefits of effective corporate governance standards and investor rights mechanisms. Its vision is for the importance of sound governance to sustainable UK economic growth to be recognised and acted upon by UK policymakers.  

The GGIC combines the scale, experience and saver-focused perspective of some of the UK’s largest pension schemes who, taken together, manage £150 billion on behalf of over 11 million members, and have invested over £60 billion in UK assets. The campaign is also supported by many members of the UK Asset Owner Council.

The campaign’s mission is to provide a UK pension scheme investor perspective, alongside compelling evidence, on the value of sensible corporate governance standards and appropriate investor rights to UK capital markets. Through collaborative, strategic action, GGIC is striving to secure a thriving UK economy that protects the long-term interests of everyday savers. 

Objectives

The campaign’s advocacy will be focused around four policy pillars, which put saver needs at the heart of capital markets policymaking:

  1. Securing pension schemes a formal seat in policy discussions on the UK’s capital markets and corporate governance standards, including via participation in the new Listings Taskforce;
  2. Avoiding artificial divides between private and public markets, helping to smooth the journey of companies as they scale and mature;
  3. Working collaboratively with government to promote the UK's governance standards internationally, including on international trade missions;
  4. Empowering UK pension schemes to help companies grow by recognising the importance of shareholder rights.

Campaign objectives will be achieved through long-term, strategic relationship building and by shaping capital markets policy that serves everyday UK savers.  

The GGIC has a series of near and medium-term priorities. You can read about some of these in the campaign’s policy vision paper which sets out a non-exhaustive list of policy and industry initiatives that helps put governance at the core of the UK economic growth agenda. 

Attachments
Created on
ESG theme
  • Governance
ESG sub-theme
  • Shareholder rights
Sustainable Development Goal
  • 8 - Decent work & economic growth
Geography
  • United Kingdom
Asset class
Listed Equities
Asset class subcategory
  • Listed equity
  • Private equity