Appendices and Data Collection
Recognition for ESG Initiatives
Recognition for ESG Initiatives
S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index
SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS has been included in “S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index” by the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), which is a global environmental stick index. The S&P/JPX Carbon Efficient Index emphasizes the investment weight of companies that are highly carbon efficient, that is, those that emit low greenhouse gas emissions relative to their , and those that actively disclose information about their greenhouse gas emissions.
SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS Selected for Inclusion in the “Morningstar Japan ex-REIT Gender Diversity Tilt Index
SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS was selected as a component of the Morningstar’s ESG Index “Morningstar Japan ex-REIT Gender Diversity Tilt Index (GenDi J) .”
As of March 2025, Holdings was rated Group 3. The selection was based on the ESG Index’s assessment of companies’ efforts with regard to gender diversity.
GenDi J was newly adopted by GPIF in April 2023 as an ESG index for domestic stocks.
Selection for Inclusion on the “FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index”
In March 2022, SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS was selected for inclusion in the FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index.
Established by global index provider FTSE Russell on March 30, 2022, this ESG index uses a sector-neutral approach to reflect the performance of Japanese companies with outstanding environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives according to the relative weighting of each sector. The index has also been designed to encourage the transition to a low-carbon economy, especially with regard to companies with high greenhouse gas emissions, by including only companies that have earned recognition for improvement initiatives based on their Transition Pathway Initiative (TPI) Management Quality scores. The FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index has also been selected as a benchmark for ESG-based passive investment by the Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF).
“FTSE Russell (a registered trademark of FTSE International Limited and Frank Russell Company) hereby certifies that SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS has met the requirements to be included in the FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index as a result of a third-party survey, and has become a constituent of the index. The FTSE Blossom Japan Sector Relative Index is widely used to create and evaluate sustainable investment funds and other financial products.”
SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS Received ”AAA” in the MSCI ESG Ratings and Included in the MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index and the MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index (WIN)
Since June 2017, SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS has been included in the MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index, which is selected by MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International, Inc.). In 2023, the ESG rating of SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS was revised from AA to AAA.
This is an investment index that evaluates the components of the MSCI Japan IMI Top 700 Index * in terms of ESG, and selects the stocks with the highest ratings within the industry. SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS believe that this review is the result of the effort of our ESG activities and sharing them continuously.
The MSCI Japan ESG Select Leaders Index is a free float-adjusted market capitalization weighted index based on the MSCI Japan IMI Index, its parent index, which includes large, mid and small-cap securities in the Japanese markets. Overall the index targets coverage of 50% of the parent index.MSCI Japan Empowering Women Index (WIN) is designed to represent the performance of Japanese companies that exhibit a commitment towards promoting and maintaining high level of gender diversity among their workforce.
Level B Scores in the CDP Climate Change List
In February 2025, SEGA SAMMY HOLDINGS was rated “B” by the UK’s CDP for its efforts and information disclosure on climate change. CDP is an international non-profit organization that encourages companies to promote environmental initiatives and disclose information with the aim of responding to investors’ concerns about environmental issues. A questionnaire is issued for each subject, such as climate change, water resource conservation and forest conservation, and companies are given a score on an 8-point scale from D- to A based on their responses. B at the management level this time indicates that the company has been evaluated as taking action against environmental risks and their effects “to track and mitigate or eliminate environmental risks and their effects.” Using this rating as a reference, the SEGA SAMMY Group hopes to further strengthen its efforts in the future and bring it closer to best practices.