Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.
Basic Policies for Internal Controls
Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") shall establish basic policies for internal controls in accordance with the Companies Act of Japan and its Ordinance for Enforcement, as follows:
1. System for ensuring proper operations within the Tokio Marine Group (the "Group")
(1) Based upon the "Tokio Marine Group Corporate Philosophy", the Company, as the holding company presiding over the businesses of the Group, by establishing both the Group's basic policies for the administration of Group companies and a system of reporting to the Board of Directors, shall develop the Company's management system for all the Group companies.
a. The Company shall administer the business of Group companies under its direct management ("Subsidiaries and Others") by concluding business management agreements with them and through other means.
1. The Company shall provide Subsidiaries and Others with the Group's basic policies that form the fundamentals of the Group's management strategies and the Company's management.
2. Business strategies, business projects and other important plans by Subsidiaries and Others shall be subject to the Company's prior approval.
3. Subsidiaries and Others shall report to the Company their initiatives based on the Group's basic policies and the progress of their business plans.
b. The business management of Group companies other than Subsidiaries and Others shall, in principle, be made through Subsidiaries and Others.
(2) The Company shall establish the Group's basic policies for internal controls over financial reporting and develop systems for ensuring the appropriateness and reliability of financial reporting.
(3) The Company shall establish the Group's basic policies for management of intragroup transactions and develop systems for such transactions.
2. System for ensuring the execution of professional duties in accordance with applicable laws, regulations and the Articles of Incorporation
(1) The Company shall establish the Group's basic policies for compliance and develop compliance systems.
a. The Company shall establish a department supervising compliance.
b. The Company shall formulate the "Group Code of Conduct" and employees of the Group respect such code of conduct and give top priority to compliance in all phases of the Group's business activities.
c. The Company shall have Subsidiaries and Others prepare compliance manuals and widely promote compliance within the Group by means of training on laws, regulations, internal rules and other matters which all directors and employees of the Group must respect.
d. The Company shall establish reporting rules in the event of a violation of laws, regulations or internal rules within any of the Subsidiaries and Others and, in addition to usual reporting routes, set up hotlines (an internal whistle-blower system) to an internal and external organization and while keeping all directors and employees of the Group well informed as to the use of the system.
(2) The Company shall establish the Group's basic policies for the protection of customers' interests and maintain a customer-oriented policy in all phases of business in order to maintain a system for the protection of customers' interests.
(3) The Company shall establish the Group's basic policies for information security management and develop such systems.
(4) The Company shall establish the Group's basic policies against antisocial factions and groups, and in association with lawyers, police and other professionals, maintain its systems against such antisocial factions and groups, and respond to them in an organized and uncompromising manner by severing relationships with them and refusing unfair demands.
(5) The Company shall establish an internal audit department separate and independent of other departments, establish the Group's basic policies for internal audits of the Group and maintain systems for efficient and effective internal audits within the Company and Group companies.
3. System for risk management
(1) The Company shall establish the Group's basic policies for risk management and maintain risk management systems.
a. The Company shall establish a department supervising risk management.
b. The Company shall perform risk management by following the basic processes of risk identification, evaluation and control, contingency planning and assessment of outcomes through risk monitoring and reporting.
c. The Company shall have each of the Subsidiaries and Others perform risk management appropriate to its types of business and its risk characteristics.
(2) The Company shall establish the Group's basic policies for integrated risk management and perform quantitative risk management across the entire Group to maintain credit ratings and prevent bankruptcies.
(3) The Company shall establish the Group's basic policies for crisis management and maintain systems for crisis management.
4. System for ensuring efficient execution of professional duties
(1) The Company shall formulate a medium-term management plan and an annual plan (including numerical targets, etc.) for the Group.
(2) The Company shall establish rules regarding the exercise of authority and construct an appropriate organizational structure for achieving its business purposes in order to realize efficient execution of operations through a proper division of responsibilities and a chain of command.
(3) The Company shall formulate rules for and establish a "Management Meeting", composed of directors, executive officers and other relevant persons, that shall discuss and report on important management issues.
(4) The Company shall establish an Internal Control Committee that shall formulate various basic policies and other measures concerning the Group's internal control systems, evaluate their progress, discuss how to improve them, and promote their development.
(5) The Company shall establish the Group's basic policies for personnel matters with a view to enhancing productivity and corporate value through comprehensive efforts to enhance employees' satisfaction and pride in their work and promoting fair and transparent personnel management linked with proper performance evaluation.
5. System for preserving and managing information concerning the execution of directors' duties
The Company shall establish rules for the preservation of documents and other materials. The minutes of important meetings and documents containing material information regarding the execution of duties by the directors and the executive officers shall be preserved and managed appropriately in accordance with such rules.
6. Matters concerning support personnel to the corporate auditors and their independence from the directors
(1) The Company shall establish the Corporate Auditor's Office under the direct control of the corporate auditors for the purpose of supporting them in the performance of their duties. Upon request of the corporate auditors, the Company shall assign full-time employees having sufficient knowledge and ability to support the corporate auditors.
(2) Employees assigned to the Corporate Auditor's Office shall perform duties ordered by the corporate auditors and other work necessary for proceeding with audits, and such employees shall have the right to collect information necessary for audit purposes.
(3) Performance evaluations, personnel transfers and disciplinary action concerning such employees shall be made with the approval of the standing corporate auditors.
7. System of reporting to the corporate auditors
(1) Directors and employees shall regularly report to the corporate auditors on management, financial condition, compliance, risk management, internal audits and other matters, and in the event that they detect a material violation of laws, regulations or internal rules, or a fact likely to cause considerable damage to the Company, they shall immediately report thereof to the corporate auditors.
(2) Directors and employees shall regularly report to the corporate auditors on matters such as how the hot lines (the internal whistle-blower system) are used and important reports and consultations made.
8. Other systems for ensuring effective audits by the corporate auditors
(1) The corporate auditors shall attend meetings of the Board of Directors, have the right to attend "Management Meetings" and other important meetings and committees, and express their opinions.
(2) The corporate auditors shall have the right to inspect at any time the minutes of important meetings and other important documents relating to decisions approved by the directors and the executive officers.
(3) Directors and employees shall, at any time upon the request of the corporate auditors, explain matters concerning the execution of their duties.
(4) The Internal Audit Department shall strengthen its coordination with the corporate auditors by assisting in the audit process and through other means.
Adopted May 2, 2006
Amended December 12, 2007
Amended July 1, 2008
Amended April 1, 2010






































