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As an international sustainability benchmark, Yuanta Financial Holding Company (FHC) has been included as a constituent stock of the FTSE4Good TIP Taiwan ESG Index for nine years straight and has been awarded the exclusive corporate seal of the constituent stock. Moreover, Yuanta FHC has been listed on both the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index and the Dow Jones Emerging Markets Index for three consecutive years, and has been ranked number one (No. 1) in the diversified financials category in 2021, making it the first financial company in Taiwan to be ranked No. 1 in the global financial sector. The FTSE4Good TIP Taiwan ESG Index, jointly compiled by Taiwan Index Plus Corporation (TIP) and FTSE Russell, is the first investment-oriented ESG index in Taiwan that completely integrates ESG and financial indicator screening. Based on FTSE Russell’s ESG Ratings Model, the Index evaluates the overall ESG performance of listed companies in three areas: environmental, social, and corporate governance. Yuanta FHC has been selected as a constituent stock for nine times, demonstrating its excellent and stable performance in the ESG field. Yuanta FHC is actively engaged in the ESG field and has not only set a record in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index, but also made the CDP (formerly Carbon Disclosure Project) A List (Leadership Level A) again in 2021, the best result in Taiwan’s financial industry. The company was also awarded the “2021 Sustainability Resilience Award – Pilot Award” by the British Standards Institution (BSI). As a domestic accolade, Yuanta FHC was selected by the Taiwan Corporate Sustainability Awards (TCSA) as one of the “Top 50 Taiwanese Companies Sustainability Award” for its sustainability comprehensive performance. The National Enterprise Environmental Protection Award, the highest honor in Taiwan for corporate social responsibility and environmental protection, was presented to Yuanta for its first ever submission. By promoting the Group’s roadmap for sustainable development, Yuanta will continue to hold itself to high international standards, support sustainable corporate development, continue to practice environmental sustainability, social welfare, corporate governance, customer rights, and employee care, perform its core functions in the financial industry, expand its influence in sustainable finance, and enthusiastically campaign for a better future for future generations.

Yuanta Financial Holdings and Yuanta Cultural and Educational Foundation have been concerned about issues on education and society on an ongoing basis and launched the “Dream Big Project”- Yuanta Social Service Dream-fulfilling Program in 2016 to help hardworking students and social welfare groups and organizations in all corners of society. Through injection of innovative service, volunteer participation, project grant, Yuanta has invested manpower and resources and promoted various educational programs to help realize many deeply moving dreams. With the program entering its sixth year, Yuanta looks forward to keeping the dream alive and invites partners with clear objectives and       creative ideas to come together to fulfil dreams. Over the past five years since the launch of the “Dream Big Project”, thirty groups have fulfilled their dreams and 3,480 volunteers from within and outside of Yuanta group participated in the events. The call for “dream-fulfilling” program submissions for the sixth Dream Big Project has officially begun and welcomes all education related dream programs. The submission period is from now until 17:00 on January 21, 2022. Looking back on the bountiful results from the previous five projects, Yuanta Financial Holdings and Yuanta Cultural and Educational Foundation joined hands with“dream-fulfilling” groups to create many touching stories. The fifth Dream Big Project was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, but the pandemic did not stop plans to fulfill dreams from being carried out. In the face of the pandemic, the project utilized service transformation and innovative breakthroughs and presented education in a variety of forms. For example, Taiwan Digital Talking Book Association, a group that participated in the fifth Dream Big Project, built “Interactive Online Practice Platform” to provide visually impaired students the opportunity for remote learning, applying innovation to break through the limitation imposed by the pandemic so learning was not interrupted. Sanho Elementary School in Jinshan District, New Taipei City collaborated with local farmers’ associations and elders of local communities on food and farming education course. Students harvested rice from the fields and experienced growing non-toxic, eco-friendly rice. Taiwan Sustainable Urban and Rural Care Association (Grass Book House) in Sanxia made the farm-to-table connection in their food and farming education and cooperated with Sanho Elementary School in making desserts from the Good Grain Rice they have grown and incorporated local ingredients in their developing the menu for the opening meal, giving way for the project to successfully take roots in communities and share educational resources across different sectors. Yuanta works together with dream-fulfilling groups and injects funds toward Dream Big projects, supporting people pursuing their dreams to soar by providing them with wings. Yuanta volunteers also play a critical role. Leveraging on their individual financial expertise, they record videos for financial education, provide lectures and courses on financial management and career planning and extend themselves in performing various “hidden skills” to assist in the operation of activities, such as balloon twisting, drumming, food cultivation and farming, painting artworks in communities, providing cultural and historical information, video clip editing and making cards and gift boxes. Through various forms of companionship, the project takes solid steps to help fulfill dreams, so that innovative education programs can be realized through different opportunities.