Page 4 ADVISORY BUSINESS Asset Management One Co., Ltd. (the "Firm") is the Head Quarters of the Asset Management One Group, a global investment management company based in Tokyo, Japan. The Asset Management One Group was formed in 2016 as a joint venture between Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: MFG) and Dai-ichi Life Holdings, Inc. from pre-existing asset management units within each company. Dai-Ichi Life Holdings Inc. is one of the four major life insurance companies in Japan and Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. is one of the top banks in Japan. Dai-Ichi Life Holdings, Inc. owns 30% and Mizuho Financial Group, Inc. owns 70% economic interest in the Firm, which in turn is the sole shareholder of other Asset Management One Group entities. The Asset Management One Group consists of Asset Management One Co., Ltd., Asset Management One International, Ltd. (UK), Asset Management One USA Inc., Asset Management One Singapore Pte. Ltd., Asset Management One Hong Kong Limited, Asset Management One Alternative Investments, Ltd (JP), and PayPay Asset Management Corporation (JP). The Asset Management One Group inherited the years of experience and strong investment foundation of its predecessors and has further broadened its base to become one of the largest managers of Japanese pension assets in the world. Today, in an economic landscape undergoing seismic change, our experience in Japanese pension asset management and our access to the expertise of

our global affiliates, uniquely positions us to assist investors in managing portfolio risks and returns on a global basis. Asset Management One Co., Ltd. offers discretionary and non-discretionary investment advisory services to pension funds, public funds, financial institution, institutional clients, and corporate clients, for whom we provide strategic products tailored to suit their respective investment goals and investment time spans. We also provide investment advisory services to pooled investment vehicles including Japanese investment trusts. Internationally, we offer institutional investors tailor-made, full-service managed solutions that draw on a wealth of expertise in Japanese equity, Japanese fixed-income, and a range of other pension and retirement planning products. On January 1, 2020, Asset Management One Co., Ltd. and Asset Management One USA Page 5 Inc. started collaboration to jointly research, design, develop and maintain proprietary algorithms or outputs of such algorithms for their quantitative investment strategies and infrastructure design, supporting IT infrastructure, as well as sourcing, analyzing and monitoring third party quantitative strategies. Asset Management One Co., Ltd. and Asset Management One USA Inc. jointly own, manage, and share AMO IP and supporting IT infrastructure. Please also see Item 10 for conflicts of interest associated with the Global Platform. As of the end of March 2023, our assets under management are US$460billion.