Daiwa Securities Group Inc. has been included in the following socially responsible investment (SRI) indices.
FTSE is a subsidiary of the UK's Financial Times and the London
Stock Exchange. It provides data and constructs global indices
for investment.
Starting in September 2006, Daiwa Securities Group Inc. has
been included in the FTSE4Good, an index of socially responsible
companies compiled by FTSE. Mr. Will Oulton, Head of
Responsible Investment at the FTSE Group offered this comment
upon the inclusion of Daiwa Securities Group Inc. in the index.
The FTSE4Good Index series has
become one of the most internationally
respected and influential responsible
investment indices. To be eligible for
inclusion, a company must meet a set of
demanding criteria that are designed to
reflect a broad global consensus on what
constitutes good corporate responsibility
practice. Companies gaining entry to the
FTSE4Good index are able to represent
that they have in place sufficiently robust
policies and management systems to
manage the environmental social and
governance ("ESG") risks and impacts.
Although Daiwa Group met the social
and stakeholder criteria, Daiwa did not
meet the environmental criteria. This
year, FTSE are delighted to see an
improvement in Daiwa's wide range of
environmental measures and therefore
judged Daiwa to be eligible for inclusion.
For achieving FTSE4Good status,
Daiwa Securities Group Inc should
be congratulated.
The Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI World) is a stock
index of companies with sustainable practices as selected by
Dow Jones & Company, Inc. of the US, and Sustainable Asset
Management (SAM) of Switzerland. Daiwa Securities Group Inc.
has been in the DJSI World for eight years running now.
