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we are passionate about the United
Nations sustainable development goals
this is reflected in how we behave
across our entire ecosystem which
includes our employees distributors
regulators and society in general I'm a
global Executive Committee member and
also head with a corporate
sustainability department the latter
comes from a personal passion for DNI
and the environment I'm a strong
believer that if such efforts are to be
a success they can only thrive on
top-down directive they need to be
brought alive through grassroot efforts
and executed by the people who drive
this company day to day as a foreign
woman in Japan and a working mother it's
been a wonderful challenge to drive
forth the agenda for the women of this
company we are a little bit ahead of the
game these goals and the whole idea of
DNI is becoming part of my DNA and in
that sense we're doing very well in
Singapore we're fortunate to be an
environment where gender equality is
more of a given that just means we're
better positioned to enable women to
succeed both at work and at home
we believe our culture and environment
are conducive to helping women leaders
manage challenges and various that drive
change progress with the empowerment of
women and diversity and inclusion
the first substantially from country to
country this is why it's so important to
create a common framework in the form of
the women's empowerment principles I
truly believe that sustainability across
environmental social and economic
considerations is essential to ensure a
bright future for subsequent generations
looking to the inclusion of those living
with disabilities some progress has been
made in raising awareness in the
financial industry but there's a lot
more to do we have for many years
supported an organization that provides
wheelchairs to children in developing
countries who would not have access to
them otherwise Nicko asset management
also supports the Japan national
wheelchair rugby team and two of its
members are our colleagues including
team captain Yuki novel Ikki
the team took a bronze at the Rio de
Janeiro Paralympics then went on to win
the wheelchair rugby world championship
about two years later this clearly
displays the importance of emphasizing
ability above disability education is an
important element to reducing inequality
our contribution to this effort comes in
a number of different formats
we're industry leaders and investment
and fund education to distributors as
well as to other segments such as young
investors through a fund Academy series
here in Japan we believe in the
importance of education as an equalizer
in society and so over the years we've
deliberately collaborated with various
educational institutions in the local
market on many different fronts
we've also worked with hearing pet
children at primary school level
supporting their needs in the next 10 to
15 years I would like to see this
company with a much healthier balance of
senior female leaders we are definitely
on the right path we have programs that
really help incentivize women to want to
move up within the company but this
industry is very very low with female
talent and very very low in role models
and so it's not specific just anikó a.m.
but for us I would like us to see the
stannis industry leaders in terms of how
women we have the top and that's really
our talent as a female leader quite
naturally were more sensitive more akin
to understanding the different needs and
so I think you know as a female leader
for the next generation is important for
them to see that there is a spectrum of
possibilities of what access can look
like
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