Governance for Growth Investor Campaign

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.

20 July 2025

UK pension schemes currently invest around £1.4 trillion in UK companies and assets and the Government is calling on us to increase investment in areas of key strategic importance.

GGIC stands ready to reinvigorate UK capital markets with policymakers and companies and support the UK’s growth objectives. But UK pension schemes, who collectively manage £3.2 trillion on behalf of 38 million members, need to be further empowered to do so.

Driven by its steering group of some of the UK's largest pension schemes, GGIC is part of a movement for change that recognises the importance of sound governance to sustainable growth.

GGIC is therefore calling on policymakers to create a sensible ‘governance for growth’ framework that empowers UK pension schemes, as catalysts for capital creation, to support long-term, sustainable growth that puts future generations of savers at its heart.

With growing geopolitical uncertainty, and as jurisdictions elsewhere roll back the shareholder rights and governance safeguards that are so key to sustainable economic growth, the UK has the opportunity to become the destination of choice for domestic and international capital.

Let’s drive the change now to support long-term value creation in the interests of everyday UK savers.

What's the campaign's focus?

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.

What are the policy objectives?

Give UK capital allocators a seat at the policy table

Avoid artificial divides between private and public markets

Celebrate the UK’s status as a capital ‘destination of choice’

Empower UK pension schemes to help companies grow

What's the campaign's approach and priorities?

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.

Read GGIC’s policy vision

Campaign values

This campaign is built on our shared UK pension scheme belief that collaboration is a key driver of change. Together, through this campaign, we strengthen and highlight the evidence base to help shift thinking, inform debate and influence policy. We take a thoughtful approach to achieve a lasting impact and while we’re driven by the bigger picture, we’re nimble enough to respond to change and realign.

Help drive the change

We’re keen to work across the policy agenda with our peer schemes and with others who are passionate about capital markets policymaking that has the saver at its heart.