Dividends
Dividend Policy
Based on the “Capital Management Policy”, the Company aims to maintain an increasing trend of dividends by enhancing profitability over the medium term, while maintaining a stable level of dividend per share.
Capital Management Policy
- • Allocate resources to high-growth areas both in Japan and overseas, aiming to become a global insurance and financial services group, while seeking to enhance the growth and business diversification of the Group.
- • Enhance the risk/capital management structure to secure financial soundness of the Group, while going on with further reduction of risk-weighted assets and good use of capital, with a view to improving the capital efficiency of the Group.
- • Return to shareholders approximately 50% of Group Core Profit over the medium-term through dividends and share buyback.
(Extract from the Master Integration Plan (PDF file 329KB/22pages))
Track Record of Dividends (ref.)
The charts below show the track record of the Company in dividends per share.
As of September 30, 2010, dividends for FY2010 (Year- interim and year-end ) represents the forecast by the Company.

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* The FY2007 dividend per share of ¥16.0 is equivalent to ¥53.3 on an MSIG basis.
