Latest signatories announced ahead of transition to UK Stewardship Code 2026

News types: Codes and Standards Announcements

Published: 28 January 2026

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has confirmed the final round of successful signatories to the UK Stewardship Code 2020. The Code now has 291 signatories representing £57.3 trillion assets under management, including 197 asset managers, 75 asset owners and 19 service providers. These signatories are the last to report under the 2020 Code ahead of the transition to the UK Stewardship Code 2026.

The UK Stewardship Code 2026 came into effect on 1 January 2026, with this year designated as a transition year for its implementation. Existing signatories that submit a renewal application during 2026 will remain on the signatory list throughout the transition period, reflecting their status under the 2020 Code, while new applicants not included on this final 2020 signatory list will be able to apply to become signatories for the first time under the updated framework.

The FRC developed the 2026 Code through a comprehensive consultation that engaged over 1,500 stakeholders, who showed strong support for the updated Code as part of a broader regulatory framework that will continue to drive high standards while reducing reporting burdens for signatories.

"We're pleased to confirm this final cohort of organisations that have successfully reported to the UK Stewardship Code 2020. With 291 signatories now representing £57.3 trillion in assets under management, the Code continues to demonstrate its value in driving transparency for investors, underpinning confidence in UK markets.

We listened carefully to over 1,500 stakeholders in developing the 2026 Code, and the result is a Code that maintains high standards while sharpening the focus on signatories’ stewardship activities and their outcomes. We look forward to supporting signatories through this transition."

Mark Babington, Executive Director of Regulatory Standards

The FRC's publication "Preparing for the UK Stewardship Code 2026: applying insights from current reporting" provides practical insights and examples of effective reporting to the 2020 Code to help asset owners, asset managers, and service providers transition to the 2026 Code's new streamlined reporting structure. The guidance is optional and offers signatories suggestions on the information to include, how to explain their approach to stewardship, and what readers are most interested in understanding.

For further information, read the UK Stewardship Code 2026 FAQs.

Current signatories following the Autumn 2025 applications:

  • 2Xideas
  • 7IM
  • aberdeen investments
  • Aberforth Partners LLP
  • Aegon Asset Management UK
  • Aegon UK
  • AGF International Advisors Company Ltd
  • Aikya Investment Management Limited
  • Alcentra Ltd
  • AllianceBernstein L.P.
  • Allianz Global Investors
  • Allspring Global Investments
  • Amati Global Investors
  • Amundi
  • Aon Investments Limited
  • Apollo Management International LLP
  • Arcmont Asset Management Limited
  • Arcus Infrastructure Partners LLP
  • Ardea Investment Management Pty Ltd
  • Artemis Investment Management LLP
  • Arts Council Retirement Plan (1994)
  • Ashmore Group
  • Asset Management One Co., Ltd
  • ATLAS Infrastructure
  • Aviva Investors
  • Aviva Life and Pensions UK Limited
  • AXA Investment Managers
  • Baillie Gifford & Co
  • Barclays Bank UK Retirement Fund
  • Barclays Investment Solutions Limited
  • Baring Asset Management Limited
  • Barnett Waddingham LLP
  • Bedfordshire Pension Fund
  • BlackRock Inc
  • BNP Paribas Asset Management
  • Border to Coast Pensions Partnership
  • Boussard and Gavaudan Investment Management
  • BP Pension Fund
  • Brandywine Global Investment Management, LLC
  • Brightwood Capital Advisors, LLC
  • Brown Advisory
  • Brunel Pension Partnership
  • BT Pension Scheme
  • Cambridge Associates Limited
  • Cambridgeshire Pension Fund
  • Canada Life Asset Management
  • Canada Life Limited
  • CANDRIAM
  • Capital Group
  • Cardano
  • Carmignac
  • Castlebay Investment Partners LLP
  • Castlefield Investment Partners
  • CBRE Investment Management
  • CCLA Investment Management
  • Chelverton Asset Management Ltd
  • Cheshire Pension Fund
  • Chikara Investments LLP
  • Church Commissioners for England
  • Church House Investments Limited
  • Clwyd Pension Fund
  • Coal Staff Superannuation Scheme Trustees Limited
  • Cohen and Steers UK Limited
  • Columbia Threadneedle Investments
  • Comgest
  • Cornwall Pension Fund
  • Coutts & Co
  • CQS (UK) LLP
  • Cumbria Local Government Pension Scheme
  • Darwin Alternative Investment Management (Guernsey) Limited
  • Darwin Property Investment Management (Guernsey) Limited
  • Dean Wetton Advisory UK Limited
  • Devon County Council Pension Fund
  • DHL Group Retirement Plan - DB Sections
  • Dimensional Fund Advisors Ltd.
  • Dodge and Cox
  • Downing LLP
  • Dundas Partners LLP
  • DWS Investments UK Limited
  • East Sussex Pension Fund
  • EdenTree Investment Management
  • Egerton Capital
  • Environment Agency Pension Fund
  • EOS at Federated Hermes Limited
  • Epworth Investment Management Ltd (Central Finance Board of the Methodist Church)
  • Essex Pension Fund
  • Evelyn Partners
  • Evenlode Investments
  • Federated Hermes Limited
  • Fidelity International
  • Fiera Capital (UK) Limited
  • Findlay Park Partners LLP
  • First Sentier Investors
  • Fisher Investments Europe Limited
  • Franklin Templeton
  • Fulcrum Asset Management LLP
  • Fundsmith LLP
  • GAM International Management Ltd (GIML)
  • Generation Investment Management LLP
  • Glass Lewis and Co. LLC
  • Global Systematic Investors
  • Gloucestershire Pension Fund
  • GMO, LLC
  • Goldman Sachs Asset Management
  • Greater Manchester Pension Fund
  • Gresham House Asset Management Limited
  • GuardCap Asset Management Limited
  • Guinness Global Investors
  • Hamilton Lane
  • Hampshire Pension Fund
  • Harding Loevner
  • Hayfin Capital Management LLP
  • Herald Investment Management Limited
  • Hosking Partners LLP
  • HSBC Bank (UK) Pension Scheme
  • HSBC Global Asset Management (UK) Limited
  • Hymans Robertson LLP
  • IFM Investors
  • Impax Asset Management
  • Independent Franchise Partners, LLP
  • Insight Investment
  • Institutional Shareholder Services Inc.
  • Intermediate Capital Group plc
  • Invesco
  • Investment Association Services Limited (trading as Institutional Voting Information Service)
  • Irish Life Investment Managers
  • Isio Group Ltd
  • J O Hambro Capital Management Limited
  • J. Stern and Co.
  • J.P. Morgan Asset Management
  • Jaguar Land Rover Pension Trustees Limited
  • Janus Henderson Investors
  • Joh. Berenberg, Gossler & Co. KG
  • JPMC UK Retirement Plan
  • Jupiter Fund Management PLC
  • Just Group plc
  • Kiltearn Partners LLP
  • Knight Frank Investment Management
  • Lane Clark & Peacock LLP
  • Lansdowne Partners (UK) LLP
  • LaSalle Investment Management
  • Lazard Asset Management
  • Legal and General - Asset Management
  • LGPS Central
  • Lincolnshire County Council Pension Fund
  • Lindsell Train Limited
  • Liontrust Investment Partners LLP
  • Local Pensions Partnership Investments
  • Lodbrok Capital LLP
  • Lombard Odier Asset Management Europe (Ltd)
  • London Borough of Hackney Pension Fund
  • London Borough of Lambeth Pension Fund
  • London CIV
  • Longview Partners
  • Loomis, Sayles and Company, L.P., and Loomis Sayles Investments, Limited
  • Lothian Pension Fund
  • M&G Investments
  • M&G plc (Prudential Assurance Company)
  • Macquarie Asset Management
  • Man Group
  • Manulife Investment Management Europe Limited
  • Marathon Asset Management Limited
  • Martin Currie Investment Management Limited
  • Massachusetts Financial Services Company
  • Mercer Global Investments Europe Limited
  • Mercer Limited
  • Navera Investment Management
  • Merseyside Pension Fund
  • MetLife Investment Management Limited
  • Metropolis Capital Limited
  • Minerva Analytics Ltd
  • Mirabaud Asset Management Limited
  • Mirova
  • Momentum Global Investment Management
  • Mondrian Investment Partners Limited
  • Montanaro Asset Management
  • Morgan Stanley Investment Management
  • Morningstar Sustainalytics
  • Nest Corporation
  • Neuberger Berman Europe Limited
  • Newton Investment Management
  • NFU Mutual
  • Nikko Asset Management
  • Ninety One plc
  • Nomura Asset Management U.K. Limited
  • Nordea Asset Management
  • Northern Ireland Local Government Officers' Superannuation Committee
  • Northern Trust Asset Management
  • now:pensions
  • Nuveen LLC
  • Oldfield Partners
  • Osmosis Investment Management
  • Ownership Capital
  • Oxfordshire Pension Fund
  • Pacific Asset Management
  • Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund
  • Partners Group AG
  • Payden and Rygel
  • Pennon Pension Trustees Ltd
  • Pension Insurance Corporation plc
  • Pensions & Investment Research Consultants Limited (PIRC Limited)
  • PGIM Fixed Income
  • PGIM Real Estate
  • Phoenix Group
  • Pictet Asset Management
  • PIMCO Europe Ltd
  • PineBridge Investments Europe Limited
  • Polar Capital
  • Polunin Capital Partners Ltd
  • Premier Fund Managers Limited
  • Principal Asset Management
  • Pyrford International
  • Quantum Actuarial LLP (Quantum Advisory)
  • Quantum Advisors Pvt Ltd
  • Quilter plc
  • Railpen
  • Rathbones Group PLC
  • RBC Global Asset Management
  • RBC Wealth Management UK and CI (incorporating RBC Brewin Dolphin and RBC Private Wealth)
  • Redington
  • Redwheel
  • River Global Investors LLP
  • Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V.
  • Rothesay
  • Rothschild and Co Wealth Management UK
  • Royal London Asset Management
  • Royal London Mutual Insurance Society Limited
  • Royal Mail Pension Plan
  • Ruffer LLP
  • Russell Investments
  • Sands Capital Management, LLC
  • Sarasin & Partners
  • Schroders
  • Scottish Borders Council Pension Fund
  • Scottish Widows
  • SEI Investments (Europe) Ltd
  • Shropshire County Pension Fund
  • Slater Investments Limited
  • Smart Pension Master Trust
  • South Yorkshire Pensions Authority
  • Southwark Pension Fund
  • St. James's Place
  • Staffordshire Pension Fund
  • State Street Investment Management
  • StepStone Group
  • Stonehage Fleming Investment Management UK
  • Storebrand Asset Management
  • Strathclyde Pension Fund
  • Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Asset Management Co., Ltd.
  • Superannuation Arrangements of the University of London (SAUL)
  • Surrey Pension Fund
  • Swiss Life Asset Managers UK Limited
  • T. Rowe Price
  • Target Fund Managers Limited
  • TCW Group
  • TD Epoch (Epoch Investment Partners)
  • The Board of the Pension Protection Fund
  • The Church of England Pensions Board
  • The Co-operative Pension Scheme (Pace)
  • The Royal Borough of Greenwich Pension Fund
  • TPT Investment Management
  • Trinetra Investment Management LLP
  • TrinityBridge
  • Troy Asset Management Limited
  • Trustees of the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme Limited
  • TT International Asset Management Ltd
  • TwentyFour Asset Management LLP
  • tyne and wear pension fund
  • UBS Asset Management
  • UK Government Investments
  • Unigestion (UK) Ltd.
  • Union Bancaire Privée, UBP S.A.
  • Universities Superannuation Scheme
  • Van Lanschot Kempen Investment Management
  • Vanguard Asset Management, Limited
  • Veritas Asset Management LLP
  • Verity Trustees Limited
  • Victory Hill Capital Partners LLP
  • Vontobel Asset Management
  • Wales Pension Partnership
  • Walter Scott
  • W1M
  • Wellington Management Company LLP
  • West Midlands Pension Fund
  • West Yorkshire Pension Fund
  • Western Asset Management
  • William Blair Investment Management, LLC
  • Wiltshire Pension Fund
  • Worcestershire Pension Fund
  • WTW Investments
  • XPS Group

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