Climate Change Data

AIZAWA SECURITIES GROUP CO., LTD.

Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2024-04-01 to 2024-06-30)

Reporting Period: 2024-04-01 to 2024-06-30

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Human Capital Management
  • Sustainability
  • Climate Change
  • Financial Literacy

Social Achievements

  • Increased basic salary levels for all employees effective April 2024.
  • Implementing various measures consistent with SDG Goal 8, "Promoting both job satisfaction and economic growth."
  • Promoting the Career Development Program (CDP), which emphasizes alignment with management strategies and encourages employees' self-driven growth, while also fostering skill development and career advancement tailored to everyone’s aptitude and aspirations.
  • Implementing training initiatives focused on promoting diversity, particularly aimed at empowering women to advance in their careers.
  • Prioritizing employee engagement within the organization, we regularly survey all employees and strive to cultivate an environment where they can work with energy and enthusiasm.
  • Promoting health management of employees. All employees undergo yearly physical checkups and we provide subsidies for complete health checkups, smoking cessation clinic visits, and other medical consultations.

Governance Achievements

  • Enhanced disclosures based on TCFD guidelines.

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Return over 20 billion yen of retained earnings to shareholders between March 2025 and March 2028.
Medium-term Goals:
  • AUC of 500 billion yen through investments in IT and human resource development (IFA business).

Environmental Challenges

  • Current ROE is below the estimated cost of equity of 7~8%.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Specific measures with focus on “Improved ROE,” “Reduced cost of capital,” and “Higher expected growth rates” to improve the PBR and shareholders return by enhancing its corporate value.
  • Higher profitability in mid-term, improved risk/return in business segments, continuous and appropriate return to shareholders.
  • Stabilize the revenue and profit level of entire group, enhancement of IR activities.
  • Improve expected growth rate by strengthening reforms in the financial securities business and improving profitability of the group.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

Reporting Standards

Frameworks Used: TCFD

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • Goal 8

Promoting both job satisfaction and economic growth.