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Shareholder and Investor Relations
The Mizuho Financial Group is committed to an open form of management that emphasizes proactive communication
with shareholders and investors.
This section reports on our efforts to meet the expectations and earn the trust of these important stakeholders.
Basic Stance toward All Our Shareholders
● In order to earn the trust of all our shareholders, we will endeavor to preserve and enhance the group’s assets.
● We will strengthen our internal control systems through appropriate accounting, effective internal audit and other measures.
● We will proactively disclose information and improve managerial transparency to ensure that all our shareholders
obtain an accurate picture of our business operations.
Overview of Fiscal 2007 Initiatives improve communications
with our shareholders by
● We worked to make our General Meeting of Shareholders
more open for the benefit of shareholders and investors. encouraging a lively ques-
● We were more proactive in disclosing information on tion and answer session
Mizuho’s management strategies and financial condition. on the meeting’s agenda
In particular, regarding the impact of the dislocation in the
global financial markets, we disclosed more detailed and items and matters relating
comprehensive information on our securitization products held to group management.
and others prepared basically in view of the recommendations We posted the report on our business operations given at
in “Leading-Practice Disclosures for Selected Exposures”
included in the Financial Stability Forum (FSF) report. the meeting and a message from the President & CEO on
our website for about three months following the meeting.
The Convocation Notice of the meeting contained more
detail and we mailed it out earlier to give shareholders more
time to digest its contents. We also posted it on our website in
Communication with Shareholders
both Japanese and English at the same time as the mailing.
More Open General Meeting of Shareholders
Report to Our Shareholders
We make every effort to improve the environment so that
shareholders can take part in our ordinary general meeting We distribute a report entitled “Report to Our Shareholders”
by holding it on a date at the end of June each year that following general meetings of shareholders and interim
avoids the most popular dates on which other companies’ earnings presentations in order to inform shareholders of
meetings are held. We held our sixth ordinary general meeting our business operations, financial performance and other
of shareholders in Hall A of the Tokyo International Forum management information. The report is printed in color
on June 26th, and a record 2,474 shareholders attended. and uses graphs, tables and photographs to make it easier
Using visuals projected on to a large screen, we present- to read and understand. It is also available on our website.
ed a report that was designed to explain our business in The mailing includes a questionnaire card for shareholders
an easy to understand format. We also endeavored to to voice their opinions and submit requests concerning the
contents of the report.
Shareholders (Common Stock) As of March 2008
Municipal 0.08%
Individual 16.42% Governments
Investors
Financial
Institutions
Foreign 35.69%
Corporations
26.65%
Other
Corporations Securities
Companies
19.40% Questionnaire Card and “Report to Our
1.76% Shareholders”
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S h a r e h o l d e r a n d I nve s to r R e l a t i o n s
Investor Relations
One of the highest management priorities of Mizuho
Making Effective Use of Various Channels for
Financial Group is to continue to disclose information to our
Disclosure
shareholders and investors in a fair, timely and appropriate
manner, in order that they may form proper judgments On the Mizuho Financial Group website, we disclose
and appraisals of the group. Our Disclosure Policy, which presentation materials and audio archives of such IR
refers to our basic principles of disclosure on the group presentations, as well as a variety of other materials including
and a framework for Disclosure Controls and Procedures, financial statements and other financial information, press
is published in our annual review and on our website. releases, annual reviews, and information on CSR activities.
In accordance with the abovementioned policy, We also run an “IR contact page,” which widely receives
and with due attention to two-way communication, we questions and comments about IR activities, on our
endeavor sincerely to facilitate a proper understanding of website. Moreover, we hold conferences in both Japanese
our management strategies, financial condition and other and English via the Internet following the announcements
matters. In this way, we aim to earn the trust of the market of financial results. We also issue pamphlets and other
and obtain an appropriate market reputation. publications that provide information on the group and
send out press releases through our email distribution
service. These efforts reflect our commitment to effectively
Active Involvement of Top Management in utilizing the latest disclosure methods and tools to provide
Investor Relations
more fair and widespread disclosure to meet the diverse
In addition to regular IR presentations in Japan by top needs of shareholders and investors.
management, we hold group meetings during IR activities
overseas. We also hold IR meetings regarding business
NYSE Listing
strategies for our specific business segments and participate
in seminars for investors held by securities companies We listed our ADR (American Depositary Receipt) on the
in Japan and overseas. We endeavor to take advantage New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on November 2006 to
of every opportunity to deepen the understanding of the enhance transparency in our corporate governance as well
group among shareholders and investors both inside and as raise investors’ trust in us.
outside Japan. In connection with the listing, we stationed investor
relations officers in New York, and we established a
framework to provide disclosure based on U.S. generally
accepted accounting principles, which are deemed to
be one of the global standards used by leading global
companies. We will also continue to strengthen internal
Highly Responsive Communications
controls and enhance the transparency of corporate
disclosure in line with requirements of the U.S. Sarbanes-
Oxley Act, which sets one of the strictest standards in the
world today.
IR presentations on financial results for fiscal 2007 held for
institutional investors and analysts in Japan.
To meet the expectations and earn the trust of shareholders and investors, we are working to improve
the way we manage our ordinary general meeting of shareholders.
Action Plans We will continue to work to further reinforce our IR activities in order that our shareholders and
investors may form more proper judgments and appraisals of the group.
Web Please refer to http://www.mizuho-fg.co.jp/english/csr/communication/investor/ for more detailed information.
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