Response to Climate Change activity report

Strengthening of Governance

Through compliance with the relevant laws and regulations and internal rules, including appropriate management of transactions with interested parties, proactive information disclosure, and appropriate implementation of the PDCA cycle, we aim to increase transparency and establish a viable, highly effective governance system. Through implementation of robust compliance-related systems and ongoing measures that help improve officers’ and employees’ awareness of compliance, we ensure rigorous compliance with laws and regulations, as well as conducting corporate activities in an honest, fair manner in accordance with social norms.

Specific Target Details of Specific Initiatives KPI
1.Improving officers’ and employees’ compliance awareness and knowledge
2.Complying with relevant laws and regulations and internal rules
3.Enhancing the governance system using the PDCA cycle
4.Proactively disclosing governance-related information
  • Disclosing overviews of various meeting bodies and committees, including the Board of Directors.
  • Disclosing investment management-related decision-making processes.
  • Disclosing initiatives for handling anti-social forces.
  • Disclosing initiatives to prevent bribery and corruption.
  • Disclosing money laundering and terrorism financing countermeasures.
  • Disclosing that compliance-related regulations have been established and that actions have been implemented based on those regulations.
  • Establishing an annual compliance plan and implementing its measures.
  • Establishing an annual compliance training plan and implementing its measures.
  • Disclosing that there is a Whistleblowing System (Compliance Hotline) and notifying employees and officers about it.
  • Establishing an annual internal audit plan and implementing its measures.
  • Board of Directors meeting attendance rate (actual figure) (each fiscal year)
  • Compliance training attendance rate: 100% (each fiscal year)
  • No. of compliance hotline usage cases: (actual figure) (each fiscal year)
  • No. of internal audits conducted: (actual figure) (each fiscal year)