LPPI’s UK Stewardship signatory status confirmed
Author: LAPF Investments | Published: February 12, 2026
LPPI has confirmed it has successfully retained signatory status for the UK Stewardship Code for the fifth year in a row.
It comes as the Financial Reporting Council, which put together the code, confirmed its list of successful signatories. The pool joins fellow members of the LGPS to have signatory status confirmed, including the likes of LGPS Central, Border to Coast, the South Yorkshire Pensions Authority, and the Scottish Borders Council Pension Fund.
Key achievements from the pool included it setting and expanding its net zero targets across all major asset classes – including indirect real estate, infrastructure and credit – and progressing toward full portfolio alignment by 2050.
In addition to this, it has made more than 249 engagements across climate, human rights, governance, and sustainable development goals.
LPPI’s head of responsible investment Frances Deakin said: “I am delighted the FRC has confirmed LPPI met the high bar set by the UK Stewardship Code.
“Our preparation of detailed disclosure on our approach, activities, and outcomes coincided with LGPS pooling consolidation to a concentrated timescale under the Government’s Fit for the Future programme.
“New layers added to LPPI’s role in support of the LGPS in this period did not dislodge our focus on stewardship trained on achieving partner fund objectives or participation in industry debate on fiduciary and stewardship standards.
“Making the grade in the final year of the 2020 code positions us well for the opportunities offered by new Code (2026).
“Being accountable to partner funds via disclosure that delivers assurance of the high standards LPPI embodies as a fiduciary manager is a core priority, but a more distilled and informative format which makes for less exhaustive reading and more digestible communication is something to be grasped.”
