Basic Policy for Internal Control

Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. Basic Policy for Internal Control

Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") shall establish a basic policy for internal control 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 on the Tokio Marine Group corporate philosophy, the Company, as the holding company controlling 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 implement the Company's management system for all Group companies.
    • a.The Company shall administer the business of Group companies under its direct management ("Managed Companies") by concluding business management agreements with them and through other means.
      • (a)The Company shall provide Managed Companies with the Group's basic policies that form the fundamentals of the Group's management strategies and the Company's management.
      • (b)Business strategies, business projects and other important plans by Managed Companies shall be subject to the Company's prior approval.
      • (c)Managed Companies 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 Managed Companies shall, in principle, be made through Managed Companies.
  • (2)The Company shall establish the Group’s basic policy for capital allocation and implement systems for operating the capital allocation program.
  • (3)The Company shall establish the Group's basic policy for accounting, understand its consolidated financial position and the Group companies' financial positions, and implement systems for obtaining approval from, and submitting reports to, shareholders and supervisory organizations and submitting tax returns to authorities in a proper manner.
  • (4)The Company shall establish the Group's basic policy for internal controls over financial reporting and implement systems for ensuring the appropriateness and reliability of financial reporting.
  • (5)The Company shall establish the Group's basic policy for disclosure and implement systems for disclosing information on corporate activities in a timely and proper manner.
  • (6)The Company shall establish the Group's basic policy for IT governance and implement systems for achieving IT governance.
  • (7)The Company shall establish the Group's basic policy 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.

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 policy for compliance and implement compliance systems.
    • a.The Company shall establish a department supervising compliance.
    • b.The Company shall formulate the Group’s code of conduct and ensure that all directors 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 Managed Companies prepare compliance manuals and widely promote compliance within the Group by means of training on laws, regulations, internal rules and other matters that 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 Managed Companies and, in addition to usual reporting routes, set up hotlines (internal whistle-blower systems) to an internal and external organization and keep all directors and employees of the Group well informed as to the use of the systems.
  • (2)The Company shall establish an internal audit department separate and independent of other departments, establish the Group's basic policy for internal audits of the Group and implement 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 policy for risk management and implement 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 Managed Companies perform risk management appropriate to its types of business and its risk characteristics.
  • (2)The Company shall establish the Group's basic policy 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 policy for crisis management and implement 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 implementation.
  • (5)The Company shall establish systems for ensuring efficient execution of professional duties at the Group companies as well as the Company in addition to the above (1) to (4).

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 Audit & Supervisory Board Members

  • (1)The Company shall establish the “Office of Audit & Supervisory Board” under the direct control of the Audit & Supervisory Board Members for the purpose of supporting them in the performance of their duties. Upon request of the Audit & Supervisory Board Members, the Company shall assign full-time employees having sufficient knowledge and ability to support the members in the performance of their duties.
  • (2)Employees assigned to the Office of Audit & Supervisory Board shall perform duties ordered by the Audit & Supervisory Board Members 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 full-time members of the Audit & Supervisory Board.

7. System of reporting to the Audit & Supervisory Board

  • (1)Directors and employees shall regularly report to the Audit & Supervisory Board on management, financial condition, compliance, risk management, internal audits and other matters. In the event that they detect a material violation of laws, regulations or internal rules concerning the execution of operations of the Company or a Group company or a fact likely to cause significant damage to the Company or the Group, they shall immediately report thereof to the Audit & Supervisory Board.
  • (2)The Company shall establish a system to ensure that the Audit & Supervisory Board Members shall be notified by directors and employees or those who receive reports from them, in the event that they detect a material violation of laws, regulations or internal rules concerning the execution of operations of the Company or a Group company, or a fact likely to cause considerable damage to the Company or the Group.
  • (3)The Company shall establish systems necessary to ensure that directors and employees who report the matters described in the preceding paragraph to the Audit & Supervisory Board, shall not be given any disadvantageous treatment as a result.
  • (4)Directors and employees shall regularly report to the Audit & Supervisory Board on matters such as how the hotlines (the internal whistle-blower system) are used and reports and consultations made.

8. Other systems for ensuring effective audits by the Audit & Supervisory Board Members

  • (1)The Audit & Supervisory Board Members 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 Audit & Supervisory Board Members shall have the right to inspect at any time the minutes of important meetings and other important documents relating to decisions approved by directors and executive officers.
  • (3)Directors and employees shall, at any time upon the request of the Audit & Supervisory Board Members, explain matters concerning the execution of their duties.
  • (4)The Internal Audit Department shall strengthen its coordination with the Audit & Supervisory Board Members by assisting in the audit process and through other means.
  • (5)The Company shall pay all the expenses and fees incurred in the execution of duties by the Audit & Supervisory Board Members, except to the extent that the Company proves that such expenses are not necessary.

9. Amendment or Repeal

This Policy may be amended or repealed by the Board of Directors of the Company. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the General Manager of the Corporate Planning Department may approve minor amendments to the Policy.

  • Adopted May 2, 2006
  • Amended December 12, 2007
  • Amended July 1, 2008
  • Amended April 1, 2010
  • Amended April 1, 2011
  • Amended July 1, 2013
  • Amended April 1, 2015
  • Amended April 1, 2019
  • Amended April 1, 2020
  • Amended April 1, 2021