[New Year's Address] Mirae Asset Securities Vice Chairmen Misup Kim and Sunho Heo: "Inaugural Year of Mirae Asset 3.0, Expanding the Financial Ecosystem"

Misup Kim and Sunho Heo, Vice Chairmen of Mirae Asset Securities, announced that they will designate this year as the inaugural year of 'Mirae Asset 3.0' and focus the company’s full capabilities on implementing strategic directions such as digital transformation.

Misup Kim and Sunho Hur, Vice Chairmen of Mirae Asset Securities

On January 2, Vice Chairmen Misup Kim and Sunho Heo stated in their New Year's address, "Mirae Asset 3.0 is a group-wide mid- to long-term vision aimed at securing sustainable growth engines by leading the transition to a new financial order that goes beyond the realm of traditional finance to include digital assets." They added, "We will make 2026 the inaugural year of Mirae Asset 3.0 and concentrate the organization’s full capabilities on four strategic directions to realize this vision in practice."

The four strategic directions presented by Vice Chairmen Misup Kim and Sunho Heo are: ▲ Leading the paradigm shift in the global financial industry where traditional assets and digital assets converge ▲ Strengthening the role as a global investment specialist by expanding investments in innovative growth companies ▲ Advancing a sustainable profit structure ▲ Enhancing the protection of financial consumers and customer information.

Vice Chairmen Misup Kim and Sunho Heo explained, "We will gradually build the infrastructure and systems that form the foundation of the digital asset business ecosystem, and organically connect the global mobile trading system (MTS) and digital asset trading platforms under development at our overseas subsidiaries to expand Mirae Asset’s financial ecosystem." They continued, "Through these efforts, we will help clients manage their global assets and tokenized digital assets more efficiently and execute a variety of asset allocation strategies. Additionally, by advancing artificial intelligence (AI), we will more precisely and effectively support clients’ investment decision-making across both traditional and digital assets, and further strengthen our data-driven analytical capabilities to provide a differentiated customer experience."

They also plan to expand investments in innovative growth companies. Vice Chairmen Misup Kim and Sunho Heo stated, "Based on our corporate finance (IB) and principal investment (PI) capabilities, we will provide financial solutions throughout the entire growth stages of companies and utilize diverse fundraising methods to expand productive finance and venture capital supply to innovative companies and growth industries." They emphasized, "In particular, we will actively discover and support companies with technological strength and growth potential, focusing on core innovative sectors that determine national competitiveness, such as AI, semiconductors, and robotics, thereby contributing to the creation of the future industrial ecosystem." At the same time, they plan to leverage their global network to expand investment opportunities in countries and industries with high growth potential and to further advance their risk management system to establish a business structure that balances profitability and stability.

They intend to further advance a sustainable profit structure that has been proven by performance. To achieve this, the wealth management (WM) and pension divisions will prioritize enhancing client outcomes, continuously strengthen asset management capabilities using AI, and advance specialized management systems for ultra-high-net-worth clients to secure differentiated competitiveness. Meanwhile, the trading, IB, and PI divisions will continue to improve the stability of profits and losses by refining operations, screening, and risk management processes.

They will also further strengthen the protection of financial consumers. Vice Chairmen Misup Kim and Sunho Heo emphasized, "We will make financial consumer protection the top management priority and enhance the company-wide, prevention-oriented consumer protection system throughout the entire process from product design to sales and post-sales management." They added, "We will further advance information protection governance and strengthen AI-based anomaly detection and real-time monitoring systems to create the safest possible environment for protecting clients’ assets and data."