SBI Holdings
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Company Information

Corporate Site 

SBI Holdings, Inc. engages in the online securities and investment businesses in Japan and internationally. It operates through five business segments: Financial Services Business, Asset Management Business, Investment Business, Crypto-Asset Business, and Non-financial Business segments.  

Not surprisingly for such a big financial group, they have a lot of businesses, with the perk being one most people may not realize.

Stock Perks

Rights day

End of March

Details

Choice of supplements or Ripple.

One of SBI's businesses is in healthcare, and they will give you a package of supplements and rice packs from SBI Alapromo, plus cosmetics if you have more shares.

You can instead choose Ripple, a cryptocurrency. In order to redeem it, you have to open an account at SBI VC Trade and the process is exactly the same as SBI Global Asset Management. Although I always take the sample products, I have an account for getting the Global Asset Management perk. I was able to open an account without much issue, but I do have permanent residency. In the signup page, foreigners are only asked if they have permanent residency or not, so I'm not sure having a different kind of visa would make it harder to open an account. The amount of Ripple you get is based on the price in late March.

You also get a 'member's price' for some fancy clinic checkup which costs around 200,000yen. I have not made use of it nor can say if it's a good value or not. You also get the option to buy SBI Alapromo products at a reduced price.

Requirements

100 shares gets you either 2,000yen worth of Ripple or the following SBI Alapromo products:

• Alaplus Gold EX  supplement bottle valued at 11,800 yen.

• 3 packs of brown rice valued at 270 yen each.

If you have 1,000 shares for less than a year you get the same as the 100 share perk. If you hold it for a year or more then you get either get 8,000yen worth of Ripple, or the following SBI Alapromo products: 

• Alaplus Gold EX bottle valued at 11,800 yen.

• 3 packs of brown rice valued at 270 yen each.

• Alaplus supplement bottle valued at 3,240 yen.

• Alaplus concentrate serum valued at 11,000 yen.

• Alaplus body cream valued at 6,110 yen.

Comment

Obviously the Alapromo products are worth more than the Ripple in terms of value, if you're interested in Ripple then you're better off investing in SBI Global Asset Management as you can get it for a much lower investment. The Gold EX website makes some pretty impressive claims for what the supplements can do for you and the cosmetics also make some pretty bold claims. I'm not one to make any statement on the supplement industry, but I can say that I take the bottle they send me and personally haven't noticed any differences in my body nor do I have any desire to continue and pay list price for them, but I'll gladly take them as a shareholder benefit.

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