China News Service, May 5. According to Taiwan's "Economic Daily" report, Taiwan's "Financial Regulatory Commission" announced on the 4th that it has approved six companies including Cathay Life Insurance, Fubon Life Insurance, Nanshan Life Insurance, China Life Insurance, Farglory Life Insurance, and Prudential Life Insurance. Life insurance companies issued cash dividends last year, and the total approved dividend distribution was 50.601 billion yuan (NTD, the same below), setting a new record for the life insurance industry to be approved to distribute dividends. If the unapproved Taiwan Life and Hehe Kuo are added, it is estimated to reach 550.16 100 million yuan, and the performance is even more dazzling.
The legal person said that at present, six life insurance companies have been approved to distribute dividends. This year will be the year when the major shareholders of life insurance (generally turned over to the parent financial holding) will receive the most dividends. Small shareholders who invest in financial stocks are also expected to receive more. dividends.
It is understood that the six life insurance companies submitted applications for distribution of cash dividends to the "Financial Regulatory Commission", Cathay Pacific Life Insurance was the highest with 22.445 billion yuan, followed by Fubon Life Insurance with 15.578 billion yuan, and Nanshan Life Insurance ranked third with 6.146 billion yuan.
Next, China Life Insurance 4.5 billion yuan, Farglory 1.242 billion yuan, and Prudential Life 690 million yuan, with a total of 50.601 billion yuan approved by the six companies.
At present, Taiwan Life Insurance and Heku Life Insurance have submitted their applications for cash dividends to the "Financial Regulatory Commission" and have not yet been approved.
According to the announcement of the two companies recently, Taiwan Life Insurance applied for 3.693 billion yuan, and Heku Life Insurance applied for 722 million yuan. If the two companies still pass the proposal, a total of eight life insurance companies will develop a dividend distribution of 55.016 billion yuan, setting a record for the life insurance industry to be allowed to distribute dividends. new high record.
According to statistics from Taiwan's "Financial Regulatory Commission" in the past six years from 2016 to 2021, in four of those years, the life insurance industry was approved to issue 10 billion yuan in cash dividends, and in 2018, it was approved to distribute 19.67 billion yuan in the previous year. The dividend and distribution rate is the highest at 16%; 55 billion yuan is expected to be approved in the year before the distribution in 2022, and the distribution amount is high, but the distribution rate may not break a record.