Risk Management
In the Daiichi Life Group, to ensure sound and proper business operations and to ensure that we fulfill the obligations arising from our insurance policies, we identify and evaluate potential risks within the group, take appropriate action based on the specific characteristics of each risk and comprehensively manage those risks. We are committed, on a group wide basis, to improving soundness through the management and control of the financial base, including risk volume and capital.
We have also established a crisis management system and a risk management system to respond to catastrophes and large-scale disasters in addition to our everyday risk management system.
Policies and Regulations
Our Internal Control Policy for the Daiichi Life Group includes our basic philosophy and policies regarding risk management. The approach used to manage each type of risk is developed in line with Risk Management Policy for the Daiichi Life Group. In addition, each of the risk management regulations and standards is translated into practical rules, following our series of Risk Management Regulations for the Daiichi Life Group.
Organization
To ensure the integrity and appropriate conduct of the group, the Risk Management Unit plays a central role in promoting the development and implementation of the Group-wide risk management framework. The Unit also monitors and controls the overall risk management status and soundness of the group.
In addition, the Group ERM Committee—co-chaired by the Group-CRO and the Group-CFO—is convened regularly to formulate risk management policies, confirm compliance with those policies, and discuss measures to strengthen the risk management framework. The outcomes of these discussions are regularly reported by the committee chairs to the Group-CEO and the Executive Management Board.
The Internal Audit Unit assesses the effectiveness and appropriateness of this risk management structure regularly. The Audit & Supervisory Committee conducts audits of all aspects of risk management across the group, including management personnel.
- *1Risk Management Unit and other departments in charge of each type of risk
- *2Dotted frame shows the entities which Audit & Supervisory Committee makes instruction to, and receives reporting from.
- *3Audit & Supervisory Committee and Internal Audit Unit coordinate with each other.
ERM
The Daiichi Life Group conducts enterprise risk management (ERM) whereby it undertakes its business activities based on business plans, capital strategy, that reflect the current situation regarding capital, risk, and profits.
The risk management unit assesses the suitability of business plans, capital strategy, formulated as part of ERM, and also seeks to improve group risk management while also controlling capital, risk, and profits in an appropriate manner based on the presence, nature, and characteristics of risk through activities such as setting and managing margins for risk.
The Daiichi Life Group appropriately manages its financial soundness by integrating various risks from the perspectives of economic value (for both regulatory and internal management purposes) and accounting, and comparing it with our capital position.
To identify and evaluate aspects that are not captured by the model-based quantification of risk, stress testing is conducted using worst-case scenarios based on possible future events or actual past events, such as financial market panics or large natural disasters. This is then used as a basis for analyzing the factors that influence the integrity of the organization and reporting the results to the Board of Directors, the Executive Management Board, and others, and for considering and implementing management and financial measures and ways to improve monitoring of market and other conditions as required.
Identifying Material Risks
The Daiichi Life Group engages in appropriate risk management that begins from early signs of risks by identifying foreseeable risks that could have a major impact on our business and formulating business plans that take these risks into account. We confirm that appropriate measures are being implemented to improve soundness and confirm risk tolerance through stress tests, regarding the identified risks.
See “Risk Factors” for details.
Crisis Management
The Company has a “Group Crisis Management Policy and is pursuing a variety of crisis management responses by comprehensively identifying and managing the Group's crisis management status as well as developing a crisis management promotion system in normal times to prepare in advance for preventing crises and for reducing risks in preparation for expected crises.
Specifically, we work to avert crises by proactively detecting concerns about a crisis and instructing and alerting group companies and units, in addition to requiring group companies to report events that may cause a crisis.
In addition, in times of a crisis, we rapidly establish an initial response system, including a communication system, in order to promptly respond and accurately collect information during a crisis and to implement responses to resolve the crisis in cooperation with group companies.
Daiichi Life promotes business continuity management such as decentralization of operation bases so that its business, including customer service, can be continued even in case of major disaster or crisis.
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