| 2004 |
| January |
CSR/brand management website goes online. |
| March |
Establishes Disclosure Policy. |
| May |
Begins sales of the Daiwa SRI Fund, an SRI investment trust that invests in Japanese corporations. |
| June |
Changes to committee system. |
| July |
Daiwa Securities Group Inc. establishes the CSR Promotion Department. |
| October |
SRI fund included in defined-contribution pension fund for Daiwa Securities Group employees. |
| November |
Becomes a member in the United Nations Environmental Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI). |
| 2005 |
| February |
Decides to offer long-term support for areas devastated by the Sumatra earthquake and South Asian tsunami (Daiwa Securities Group Tsunami Reconstruction Fund). |
| Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd. begins Electronic Statement Promotion Project. |
| June |
Provides support to Finance Park, a hands-on economics education program offered by Junior Achievement. |
| Begins support project for women entrepreneurs. |
| July |
Daiwa Asset Management Co. Ltd. participates in a GRI G3 project working group to study the usefulness of sustainability reporting from the perspective of finance and investors. |
| October |
Daiwa Securities Co. Ltd. begins the Daiwa e-members service, through which customers can ask to receive electronic transaction reports. |
| November |
Begins the Daiwa SRI Fund Assistance Program to support NPO staff. |
| 2006 |
| January |
The Daiwa Securities Group Sustainability Report 2005 wins the Sustainability Report First Prize (Minister of the Environment Award) awarded by the Global Environmental Forum. |
| February |
Develops Euro-dollar Bonds with Emissions Credit Value Referenced Coupons (CO2L [Cool] Bonds). |
| Begins sales of the Daiwa Eco Fund. |
| April |
Announces new medium-term management plan "Passion for the Best 2008," which includes the Group's basic CSR strategy. |
| The Daiwa Securities Group Sustainability Report 2005 wins the Excellence Prize in the sustainability report category awarded by Toyo Keizai Inc. |
| May |
Daiwa Asset Management Co. Ltd. signs the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), jointly created by the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) and the UN Global Compact. |
| October |
Opens Daiwa-JFS Youth Sustainability College with environmental NPO Japan for Sustainability (JFS) as a grant program of the Daiwa Eco Fund. |
| November |
The Daiwa Securities Group Sustainability Report 2005 ranked 34th (first in rankings for Japanese companies) in the Global Reporters 2006, an international comparative survey. |
| 2007 |
| January |
The Daiwa Securities Group makes it into the Global 100 (the world's 100 most sustainable companies). |
| Attendance at World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland. |
| February |
The Daiwa Securities Group Sustainability Report 2005 wins the Sustainability Report Excellence Prize (the President's Award) awarded by the Global Environmental Forum. |
| April |
The Daiwa Securities Group Sustainability Report 2006 wins the Excellence Prize in the sustainability report category awarded by Toyo Keizai Inc. |
| Holds CSR seminar for individual investors titled "New Trends in Investing: The Search for Sustainable Growth Companies." |
| May |
Holds environmental seminar for customers titled "Daiwa Environmental Forum 2007: What Is Happening to the Earth Now?" |
| July |
Implements "Cool Biz" policy (open collars and shirtsleeves in the office) group-wide as an initiative to combat global warming. |
| August |
Establishes the Global Environment Foreign Bond Balance Fund and the Global Environment Equity Fund. |
| September |
Receives Japanese government approval for four greenhouse gas reduction projects in China. |
| 2008 |
| February |
Daiwa Securities Group Inc. participates as a special sponsor in a global environment symposium held jointly by the Tokyo office of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the World Bank and Conservation International Japan (CI Japan). |
| Daiwa Securities SMBC and the Daiwa Institute of Research, Inc. hold the "Eco-innovation: What Industry Needs to Do on Global Warming Issues and Creating a Low-carbon Society" seminar. |
| March |
Sells vaccine bonds. |
| April |
Creates the Daiwa Securities Group Asian Student Scholarship Fund (provisional name) with the University of Tokyo. |
| Begins sales of the Russell Global Environmental Technology Fund. |
| Establishes the Work-life Balance Promotion Committee and the Work-life Balance Promotion Department. |
| Participates in the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's model project promoting work-life balance. |
| May |
Inaugurates a sponsored course at Peking University. |
| Agrees to support commercialization of iPS cell research at Kyoto University. |
| June |
Begins sales of the Certified Emission Reduction (CER) Linked USD Denominated Uridashi Bond (World CO2L [Cool] Bond). |
| Obtains the Certified Family-friendly Employer designation. |
