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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