Yuanta Financial Holding Co., Ltd

Dividend Policy

Yuanta has adopted a balanced dividend policy to maintain sustainable business operations while protecting shareholders' equity. Net income is used for the following ways in this order: offset any losses from previous years, appropriate for mandatory legal and special reserve, remuneration to directors of 1%, employee bonus of 0.1%-0.5%. The remaining amount is eligible for distribution to shareholders, after being proposed by the board of directors and approved by shareholders. After the appropriate amounts are allocated for the items mentioned above, at least 80% of the total qualified distributable amount is to be distributed. Cash dividend must not be below 50% and stock dividend must be below 50%. When a stock bonus is distributed to employees, recipients must meet the criteria listed to be an eligible employee.

Dividend Information

		2008	2009	2010
AGM date		2009/06/26	2010/06/18	2011/06/28
Cash dividend	Dividend (NT$/share)	0.1800	0.9000	0.0000
Cash dividend	Ex-dividend date	2009/08/13	2010/07/08	--
Stock dividend	Profit distribution (NT$/share)	0	0	0.9173
	Capital reserve distribution (NT$/share)	0	0	0.0000
	Total stock dividend	0	0	0.9173
	Ex-rights Date	--	--	2011/08/25
Total distribution		0.1800	0.9000	0.9173

		2008	2009	2010
Cash Dividend (%)		1.800	9.000	0.000
Stock Dividend	Profit distribution (%)	0.000	0.000	9.173
	Capital reserve distribution (%)	0.000	0.000	0.000
	Total Stock Dividend (%)	0.000	0.000	9.173
Total (%)		1.800	9.000	9.173

Par value: NT$10

	2008	2009	2010
	1.80 0.00	9.00 0.00	0.00 9.17