Our Responsible Investment Code sets out the overarching policy, standards and guidelines that enable LeapFrog and our portfolio companies to deliver both financial and social results by incorporating best practices across environmental, social, governance and impact management.
We assist and support our portfolio companies to adopt the Code for the effective and on-going management of the risks and opportunities they face. In recognition that best practice evolves over time, the Code is regularly updated.
The nine principles were created to set a basic market standard for impact investing. They serve as a guide to deployment of capital by institutional investors – including pension and sovereign funds, insurers and banks, endowments and family offices.
The Operating Principles for Impact Management arose from the need to have common disciplines for management of investments for impact, helping to ensure authenticity and high standards of measurement by creating guidelines against which impact management systems of funds and institutions are assessed.
LeapFrog was one of the external members of the consultation group that designed the Principles and became a founding signatory to the Principles in April 2019. An independent impact verification was completed by BlueMark, a leading impact investing consultancy, in September 2019. BlueMark concluded: “LeapFrog’s IM system demonstrates an advanced level of alignment across all of the Impact Principles.”
Globally, LeapFrog’s was the first independent impact audit ever completed and announced against these agreed principles. The audit applies across every LeapFrog fund, rather than to one or another fund in a larger suite of funds not dedicated to impact investing.
