ASSET MANAGEMENT ONE CREATES SUSTAINABLE FUTURE WITH POWER OF INVESTMENT
The dream of a greener planet is getting a push from Asia’s largest asset management company. With more than US$500 billion in assets under management, Asset Management One (AM-One) is pioneering the use of environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards as criteria in certain areas of its investing chain. This commitment is reflected in its highly successful efforts, which include its impact investing in Japan.
“The environment we live in is a precondition for all future economic progress. As a company that holds the assets of many people, we can do something to help the world,” says
Minori Komatsu, head of Asset Management One’s corporate sustainability office.
A merger between DIAM, Mizuho Asset Management, Shinko Asset Management and the asset management arm of Mizuho Trust & Banking, AM-One offers a broad range of investment services to institutional and individual investors worldwide. The company is one of the founders of the Net Zero Asset Managers (NZAM) initiative and is the only Asian member of NZAM’s advisory group responsible for steering the organisation toward achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions before 2050.
AM-One’s investments comply with Article 9 of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, a standard test for the adherence of funds to sustainable objectives in the Japanese equity field. Meanwhile, the company’s ESG investing utilises its own materiality map, a measure of investee companies’ application of ESG concepts guided by the double criteria of sustainable and financial materiality.
As a leading Japanese asset management company in the ESG field, AM-One welcomes like-minded organisations and government bodies in making a global impact on sustainability.
“Words are not enough, so we have to take action,” Komatsu says. “In our simple and honest way, we’re taking a straightforward approach to sustainability transformation.”
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