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Key CSR Issues : Response to Climate Change Environmental Investment

The Tokio Marine Group strives to take an environment-conscious approach in its investment and financing operations.

Integrating Environmental Consciousness into Investment Products

Tokio Marine Asset Management provides "Premium World," an environmental investment trust fund to invest in Japanese and other companies involved in activities under the following themes. These are environment and social issues arising from the growing economies and increasing population in the world, which need to be sustained or improved.

For institutional investors, the company launched a socially responsible investment (SRI) fund targeting Japanese companies in January 2006. Leveraging the comprehensive risk management know-how of the Tokio Marine Group, this fund aims to obtain long-term and stable added value based on the Group's unique environmental, social, governance and risk management (ESGR) analysis and evaluation. In March 2010, the company also launched mutual funds for overseas institutional investors.

In the future, Tokio Marine Asset Management intends to fulfill its social responsibilities as an institutional investor and improve investment performance over the long term while giving due consideration to ESG issues in its asset management operations.

Signed the United Nations-Backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)

On April 1, 2011, Tokio Marine Asset Management signed the United Nations-backed Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) initiative Consisting of the following six principles summarized from the PRI website, PRI requires investors to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues in their decision-making.

  1. We will incorporate ESG issues into investment analysis and decision-making processes.
  2. We will be active owners and incorporate ESG issues into our ownership policies and practices.
  3. We will seek appropriate disclosure on ESG issues by the entities in which we invest.
  4. We will promote acceptance and implementation of the Principles within the investment industry.
  5. We will work together to enhance our effectiveness in implementing the Principles.
  6. We will each report on our activities and progress towards implementing the Principles.

Before joining the initiative, Tokio Marine Asset Management had already established a responsible investment committee comprised of chief asset managers and a responsible investment group including ESG-specialized analysts to develop basic policies concerning responsible investment and define an organization and processes to conduct investment accordingly. The company has also added "risk management" to the set of ESG issues and has been performing relevant surveys and analyses by utilizing the Tokio Marine Group's expertise in this field.

By joining the PRI initiative, Tokio Marine Asset Management demonstrates its strong commitment to conducting responsible investment and fulfilling its social responsibilities as an institutional investor.

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