"Earth Power" and "Earth Power II" are funds that track the KLD Global Climate 100 Index, which is the world's first global index targeting public companies whose activities demonstrate the greatest potential for mitigating the causes of global warming.
(Established and managed by Shinko Investment Trust Management)
Investment trusts targeting specific communities
We offer investment trusts with portfolios primarily made up of companies in a specified region. These funds, called specified community investment trusts, are aimed at revitalizing local economies.
The aforementioned products are exposed to the price fluctuation risks and credit risks that could result in investment losses. At the time of investment, each product has prescribed commissions and various expenses. In purchasing investment products, please read all the materials that have been prepared for customers, including the documents presented prior to the consummation of contracts and the investment trust prospectus.
In our core investment banking business, we contribute to safeguarding the environment and creating sustainable affluence in communities by providing support that moves forward the business plans of our clients.
Our support of M&A in the environmental recycling business is part of our strong record in the M&A advisory business and is helping to create the social infrastructure that makes effective environmental recycling a reality in Japan.
Mizuho Securities was an advisor to the former Dowa Mining Co., Ltd. (now Dowa Holdings Co., Ltd.) in its acquisitions of an electric appliance recycling business and a business with intermediate treatment facilities for industrial waste.

(The electric appliance recycling subsidiary of DOWA ECO-SYSTEM Co., Ltd )