Corporate Governance
Governance
As a mutual insurance company, each holder of our participating policy is a member of the Company, or in other
words, a part owner.
At the Annual Board of Policyholder Representatives Meeting, 180 elected policyholder representatives make
decisions on important matters, including the appropriation of the Company’s net surplus, changes to the articles
of incorporation, and the appointment of directors.
As for the design of bodies involved in management including the Board of Directors, the Company transitioned to
Company with Committees in July 2015, with a view to further strengthening its corporate governance framework.
| Corporate Governance Code |
The Company prepares and discloses on a voluntary basis the report in accordance with “Corporate Governance
Report” as prescribed by the Tokyo Stock Exchange, from the viewpoint of enhancing information disclosure.
In addition, Corporate Governance Code is not directly applicable to the Company since it is not a listed company.
However, based on the recognition that corporate governance is a common issue regardless of corporate structures,
the Company responds to this issue on a voluntary basis. The Company also responds on a voluntary basis to
“Reasons for not implementing each principle in the Corporate Governance Code” and “Disclosure based on each
principle in the Corporate Governance Code” in this report.
Compliance
We consider strictly observing law and regulations to be an important management issue in order to more firmly
establish the basic business policy of living up to the trust of customers, and based on this belief, we have
established a system to promote compliance.
In order to fulfill our mission of contributing to social and public welfare through the life insurance business,
we faithfully conduct business in accordance with our Management Policy and the Sumitomo Life Group Code of
Conduct. In addition, we have formulated the Legal Compliance Policy and Insurance Solicitation Management Policy
to clarify the basic policy concerning compliance, based upon which we have developed a compliance promotion
system.
Furthermore, in an aim to foster a corporate culture that values compliance, we utilize the Compliance Manual and
Insurance Solicitation Compliance Manual that cover matters such as the basic approach to compliance and
particularly important matters in order to ensure that they become fully aware of compliance, and have also been
holding broad training programs concerning compliance.
In addition, Compliance Committee has been established with the President as the chairman to receive reports on
matters such as the status of monitoring and analysis on individual issues and to conduct discussions aimed at
resolving these issues.
Furthermore, the Compliance Control Department that supervises compliance for the Company works to address the
individual issues described above, makes reports on the state of compliance for the entire Company to bodies including
the Board of Directors, and receives instructions as required for the management of operations.
Under the compliance promotion system, risk-based measures for money laundering and terrorist financing are
implemented in consideration of laws and regulations as well as the external environment to maintain the soundness of
the financial system.
Risk Management
In Japan, introduction of economic value-based solvency margin regulations is expected.
In anticipation of the future introduction, we have taken advanced measures such as implementation of an economic
value-based integrated risk management and disclosure of EEV for the first time as a mutual company in Japan.
We are utilizing and continuously upgrading our integrated risk management system as an effective tool that
contributes to management’s strategic decision making by comprehensively evaluating various risks arising in the
changing business environment from a company-wide perspective, and measuring the risk relative to the level of
capital, etc.
Sumitomo Life Group Tax Policy
We have established the "Sumitomo Life Group Tax Policy" as our basic policy and code of conduct regarding taxation, and are working to improve corporate governance regarding taxation based on this policy.