MetLife Inc.

• North Carolina official argues against MetLife tax breaks

  By Emery P. Dalesio  |  April 17, 2013

  North Carolina business recruiters say a historically outsized package of about $100 million in state and local incentives to get MetLife Inc. to move 2,600 jobs from other states to North Carolina could stall benefits to other companies or force lawmakers to loosen up the rules.

• MetLife selling Tower Square, Walnut Street

  April 5, 2013

  MetLife is selling independent broker-dealer affiliates Tower Square Securities and Walnut Street Securities to Cetera Advisor Networks, so that its U.S. retail arm can concentrate more on its core distribution relationships.

• MetLife says it’s no longer bank holding company

  By The Associated Press  |  February 14, 2013

  Insurer MetLife Inc., which sold its bank deposits in January, says it is no longer a bank holding company.

• MetLife to spend $2 billion on pension business

  By The Associated Press  |  February 1, 2013

  MetLife Inc. plans to pay about $2 billion to buy the largest private pension fund administrator in Chile, as the insurer and annuity provider seeks to build its presence in emerging markets.

• MetLife starting new asset management business

  By The Associated Press  |  October 9, 2012

  MetLife rolled out an asset management business focused on real estate and private-placement debt, hoping to draw yield-starved institutional investors to areas where it already has considerable experience.

• MetLife starts new asset management business

  By The Associated Press  |  October 9, 2012

  MetLife rolled out an asset management business focused on real estate and private-placement debt, hoping to draw yield-starved institutional investors to areas where it already has considerable experience.

• MetLife profit doubles as derivatives lift insurer

  August 1, 2012

  MetLife Inc. said on Wednesday that its second-quarter earnings more than doubled, topping Wall Street's expectations, as the insurer recorded a $1.4 billion one-time gain from a derivatives bet that interest rates would fall.

• Missouri to get more than $700K from MetLife settlement

  By The Associated Press  |  June 13, 2012

  Missouri will receive more than $700,000 from a settlement between states and MetLife Inc.

• Metlife, states reach settlement near $500M

  By GREG RISLING, Associated Press  |  April 23, 2012

  MetLife Inc. will pay nearly $500 million in a settlement involving more than 30 states that claimed it didn't provide life insurance benefits to some of its policyholders, the company said Monday.

• MetLife swings to loss in first quarter

  April 20, 2012

  MetLife Inc. swung to a loss in the first three months of the year, mainly because its complex financial investments lost value.