Sumitomo Mitsui Financial : Personnel Changes

News Release	Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company, Limited
	June 6, 2024

Personnel Changes

Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company, Limited (President and CEO: Takashi Saruta) announces its personnel changes as follows. The personnel changes will be formally decided at the Ordinary General Meeting of Shareholders on June 26, 2024.

１. Changes in Directors (Effective as of June 26, 2024)

（１） Director scheduled to resign

	Current Position	Name
	Director (Outside)	Noriyuki
	Yanagawa
（２） Newly appointed Director
	New Position	Current Position	Name
	Director (Outside)	―（※）	Naoya
	Orime

（※）Formerly served as Representative Director of Western Asset Management Company Ltd since April 2007 until October 2023

２. Changes in Corporate Auditors	(Effective as of June 26, 2024)
（１） Corporate Auditors scheduled to resign
	Current Position	Name
	Audit & Supervisory Board	Toshikazu
	Member (Outside)	Tagawa
	Audit & Supervisory Board	Takaichi
	Member	Muranaka

Registration Number The Director of Kanto Local Finance Bureau
Member of	(KINSHO) No.399
Japan Investment Advisors Association
	The Investment Trusts Association, Japan
	Japan and Type Ⅱ Financial Instruments	1
	Firms Association

News Release	Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company, Limited
	June 6, 2024

（２） Newly appointed Corporate Auditor

New Position	Current Position	Name
	General Manager
	Senior Staff to Audit Committee
	Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group ,
Audit & Supervisory Board	Inc.	Taku
General Manager
Member	Hasegawa
Senior Staff to the Audit and
	Supervisory Committee
	Sumitomo Mitsui Banking
	Corporation

Contact

Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management Company, Limited https://www.smd-am.co.jp/english/

Corporate Strategy Department

Akane [e-mail]

Nozu [e-mail]

Registration Number The Director of Kanto Local Finance Bureau
Member of	(KINSHO) No.399
Japan Investment Advisors Association
	The Investment Trusts Association, Japan
	Japan and Type Ⅱ Financial Instruments	2
	Firms Association