Aflac, the leading provider of voluntary insurance sales at the worksite in the U.S., announced that the company has once again captured a place on the Dow Jones Sustainability Index North America List for 2017. This is the 7^th consecutive year that Aflac has qualified for this prestigious honor.

According to RobecoSAM, which conducts the annual assessment, the DJSI World represents the gold standard for corporate sustainability and is the first global index to track the leading sustainability-driven companies based on RobecoSAM's analysis of financially material Environmental, Social, and Governance factors and S&P DJI's robust index methodology. Every year, RobecoSAM assesses the world's largest companies via its Corporate Sustainability Assessment, which uses a consistent, rules-based methodology to convert an average of 600 data points per company into one overall score. This score determines inclusion in the DJSI.

In the 2017 assessment, Aflac scored better than the industry average in the Economic dimension as well as various individual categories, including Codes of Business Conduct, Corporate Governance, Customer Relationship Management, Information Security and Cybersecurity, Tax Strategy, Risk Detection, Occupational Health and Safety, and Talent Attraction and Retention.

"We are extremely pleased to have landed on the DJSI North America index for a 7^th consecutive year," Aflac Senior Vice President of Business Services and Chair of the company's Corporate Social Responsibility Committee Eric Seldon said. "All research shows that companies that are good corporate citizens more often than not will be respected by consumers and investors. Corporate ethics and responsibility mean more now than ever before, and Aflac understands this and will continue to always put its best foot forward in the communities we serve."

The Dow Jones Sustainability Indices were launched in 1999 as the first global sustainability benchmarks. The indices are offered cooperatively by RobecoSAM and S&P Dow Jones Indices. The family of indices tracks the stock performance of the world's leading companies in terms of economic, environmental and social criteria. The indices serve as benchmarks for investors who integrate sustainability considerations into their portfolios and provide an effective engagement platform for companies who want to adopt sustainable best practices.