Our Responsible Investment Policy establishes the roles and responsibilities of our company and investee companies regarding integration of ESG into  our investment process. Additionally, our investment and post-investment 　methodologies support the sustainable growth of our investee companies  which includes ESG considerations relevant to the investment:
 - Investment Stage: identification of opportunities for enhancing corporate value, including in relation to ESG, is a key component of our due diligence  process. The Investment Committee discusses the appropriate approach and estimate its effectiveness at a certain level to implement the relevant  opportunities
 - First Year After Investment (Visualization Phase): Setting KPIs which allow all relevant parties to see the status of ESG within the investee company, and refining financial data and other important management indices
 - Second Year After Investment (Thinking Phase): Execute a PDCA cycle company-wide based on the KPIs
 - Third Year After Investment: Realise the improvement proposals based on the PDCA cycle