A defined contribution pension plan operational management institution that provides investment-related services relating to participants or instructors of a corporate-type pension plan (including an employer that provides investment-related services; hereinafter referred to as a "corporate-type pension plan investment-related operational management institution, etc.") must, pursuant to the provisions of Cabinet Order, select the following investment methods which are specified by Cabinet Order (referred to as the "subject investment methods" in paragraph (1) of the following Article) in a number not more than the number specified by Cabinet Order as the maximum number for contributing to appropriate selection of an investment method by participants or instructors of a corporate-type pension plan and not less than three, and present them to the participants or instructors of a corporate-type pension plan pursuant to the provisions of the corporate-type pension plan rules:
making deposits or savings in a financial institution, such as a bank;
銀行その他の金融機関を相手方とする預金又は貯金の預入
creating trusts in trust companies or financial institutions engaged in trust business;
信託会社又は信託業務を営む金融機関への信託
purchasing and selling securities;
有価証券の売買
paying insurance premiums of life insurance or mutual aid premiums of mutual aid life insurance to life insurance companies or to agricultural cooperatives (limited to those that conduct mutual aid life insurance business under the category of business referred to in Article 10, paragraph (1), item (x) of the Agricultural Cooperatives Act) or other persons that conduct mutual aid life insurance business which are specified by Cabinet Order;
生命保険会社又は農業協同組合（農業協同組合法第十条第一項第十号の事業のうち生命共済の事業を行うものに限る。）その他政令で定める生命共済の事業を行う者への生命保険の保険料又は生命共済の共済掛金の払込み
paying insurance premiums of non-life insurance to non-life insurance companies; and
損害保険会社への損害保険の保険料の払込み
beyond what is set forth in the preceding items, concluding contracts that satisfy the requirements specified by Cabinet Order, such as that the protection of investors is ensured.
前各号に掲げるもののほか、投資者の保護が図られていることその他の政令で定める要件に適合する契約の締結
The selection of investment methods under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must be made in a manner that the characteristics of the expected returns on the investment, such as the expected rate of returns and the possibility of volatility in returns, are not similar, and in accordance with other standards specified by Cabinet Order.
前項の規定による運用の方法の選定は、その運用から生ずると見込まれる収益の率、収益の変動の可能性その他の収益の性質が類似していないことその他政令で定める基準に従って行われなければならない。
When a corporate-type pension plan investment-related operational management institution, etc. selects investment methods pursuant to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, it must make the selection based on expert knowledge on investment of assets.
企業型運用関連運営管理機関等は、前二項の規定により運用の方法の選定を行うに際しては、資産の運用に関する専門的な知見に基づいて、これを行わなければならない。
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(Selection of a Default Investment Method)
Pursuant to the provisions of the corporate-type pension plan rules a corporate-type pension plan investment-related operational management institution…
企業型運用関連運営管理機関等は、企業型年金規約で定めるところにより、前条第一項の規定により提示する運用の方法のほか、対象運用方法のうちから一の運用の方法を選定し、企業型年金加入者に提示することができる。
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A defined contribution pension plan operational management institution that provides investment-related services relating to participants or instructors of a corporate-type pension plan…
企業型年金加入者等に係る運用関連業務を行う確定拠出年金運営管理機関（運用関連業務を行う事業主を含む。以下「企業型運用関連運営管理機関等」という。）は、政令で定めるところにより、次に掲げる運用の方法のうち政令で定めるもの（次条第一項において「対象運用方法」という。）を…
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making deposits or savings in a financial institution, such as a bank;
銀行その他の金融機関を相手方とする預金又は貯金の預入
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creating trusts in trust companies or financial institutions engaged in trust business;
信託会社又は信託業務を営む金融機関への信託
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purchasing and selling securities;
有価証券の売買
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paying insurance premiums of life insurance or mutual aid premiums of mutual aid life insurance to life insurance companies or to agricultural cooperatives…
生命保険会社又は農業協同組合（農業協同組合法第十条第一項第十号の事業のうち生命共済の事業を行うものに限る。）その他政令で定める生命共済の事業を行う者への生命保険の保険料又は生命共済の共済掛金の払込み
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paying insurance premiums of non-life insurance to non-life insurance companies; and
損害保険会社への損害保険の保険料の払込み
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The selection of investment methods under the provisions of the preceding paragraph must be made in a manner that the characteristics of the expected returns on the investment…
前項の規定による運用の方法の選定は、その運用から生ずると見込まれる収益の率、収益の変動の可能性その他の収益の性質が類似していないことその他政令で定める基準に従って行われなければならない。
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「運用関連業務」
The investment-related work of defined contribution pension plans: selecting investment methods, presenting them to participants and investment instructors (加入者等), and giving information on them.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (7), item (ii)
employermachine translation
「事業主」
An employer with a place of business covered by employees' pension insurance (厚生年金適用事業所) that runs a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金) — the meaning the word has throughout this Act except in Article 3, paragraph (4), Article 47, item (v), Article 54-6, Article 55, paragraph (2), item (iv)-2, and Articles 70, 71 and 78.
Short name set inArticle 3, paragraph (3), item (i)· applies from here on, except in Article 3, paragraph (4); Article 47, paragraph (1), item (v); Articles 54-6, 70, 71 and 78; and Article 55, paragraph (2), item (iv-2)
defined contribution pension plan operational management institution
「確定拠出年金運営管理機関」
A corporation that carries on the defined contribution pension plan operational management business (確定拠出年金運営管理業) having been registered with the competent minister (主務大臣) under Article 88, paragraph (1).
Defined inArticle 3, paragraph (3), item (iv)
participant or instructor of a corporate-type pension plan
「企業型年金加入者等」
The participants (企業型年金加入者) and the investment instructors (企業型年金運用指図者) of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金), taken together.
Short name set inArticle 4, paragraph (1), item (v)
corporate-type pension plan rules
「企業型年金規約」
The rules of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金) that the employer has drawn up and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has approved under Article 3, paragraph (1).
Short name set inArticle 4, paragraph (3)
life insurance companymachine translation
「生命保険会社」
A life insurance company as Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Insurance Business Act defines it — an insurance company holding a licence for life insurance business — or a foreign insurance company holding a licence for foreign life insurance business, as paragraph (8) of that Article defines it (外国生命保険会社等).
Defined inArticle 8, paragraph (1), item (ii)
non-life insurance company
「損害保険会社」
A non-life insurance company as Article 2, paragraph (4) of the Insurance Business Act defines it — an insurance company holding a licence for non-life insurance business — or a foreign insurance company holding a licence for foreign non-life insurance business, as paragraph (9) of that Article defines it (外国損害保険会社等).
Defined inArticle 8, paragraph (1), item (iv)
corporate-type pension plan investment-related operational management institution, etc.machine translation
「企業型運用関連運営管理機関等」
A defined contribution pension plan operational management institution (確定拠出年金運営管理機関) that does the investment-related work (運用関連業務) — selecting investment methods, presenting them and giving information on them — for the participants and instructors of a corporate-type pension plan (企業型年金加入者等), or an employer that does that work itself.
Short name set inArticle 23, paragraph (1)
subject investment methodmachine translation
「対象運用方法」
In Article 23 and Article 23-2, paragraph (1), the investment methods a Cabinet Order (政令) specifies from among those Article 23, paragraph (1) lists — deposits or savings with a bank or other financial institution, trusts, buying and selling securities, life insurance or life mutual aid (生命共済) premiums, non-life insurance premiums, and other contracts meeting requirements a Cabinet Order sets, such as investor protection — from which the options presented to a corporate-type pension plan's participants and instructors are chosen.
Short name set inArticle 23, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 23-2, paragraph (1)