S&P Dow Jones Indices, the world’s leading index provider, today announced the results of the annual Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) after the close of trading at the New York Stock Exchange. This year, a combined total of 26 companies were listed as components in the DJSI World and DJSI Emerging Markets indices. 3 Taiwanese companies are recognized as leaders in their industries: ASE Technology Holding Co Ltd (5 years in a row), Delta Electronics Inc (3 years in a row) and President Chain Store Corporation (first year).

New Taiwanese companies in the indices include the following 4 additions: Chailease Holding Company Limited (Diversified Financial), China Development Financial Holding Corporation (Insurance), WIN Semiconductors Corp. (Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment), and TECO Electric & Machinery Co., Ltd. (Capital Goods). Except for one company, all the constituents from 2019 are included in this year’s indices.

Most notably, among the first year additions: Chailease Holding Company Limited (Diversified Financial) and China Development Financial Holding Corporation were added as components for both the DJSI World and DJSI Emerging Markets Indices, and WIN Semiconductors Corp. was added as a DJSI World component.CTBC Financial Holding Co., Ltd. was added in the DJSI World as well.

More details regarding Taiwanese components in DJSI as below:

As a result of this year’s review, the following top three largest companies based on free-float market capitalization have been added to and deleted from the DJSI World. Additions: Humana Inc, Ecolab Inc, Fast Retailing Co Ltd Deletions: Alphabet Inc, Bank of America Corp1 , United Parcel Service In.

Additions: Humana Inc, Ecolab Inc, Fast Retailing Co Ltd 
Deletions: Alphabet Inc, Bank of America Corp , United Parcel Service In. 

Note: All changes are effective on Monday, November 23, 2020.

About the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI)

Launched in 1999, the DJSI including the DJSI World Index were among the very first set of global indices to track the largest and leading sustainability-driven publicly listed companies. The DJSI World, for example, is comprised of corporate leaders in global sustainability as identified by SAM, now a part of S&P Global, and represents the top 10% of the largest 2,500 companies in the S&P Global Broad Market Index based on long-term economic and ESG factors

The DJSI are float-adjusted market capitalization weighted indices that measure the performance of companies selected with ESG criteria.
 

References
Record Climb in CSA Participation as ESG Comes into the Spotlight
DJSI/CSA Annual Review 2020