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Equity Analysts See as Positive Fed's Granting MetLife Three-Month Extension on Capital Plan
Equity analysts viewed as positive the news that MetLife Inc. was granted the extension by the U.S. Federal Reserve's Board of Governors from June 12 until Sept. 30 to resubmit its ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 20, 2012
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Federal Reserve Grants MetLife a Three-Month Extension to Resubmit Capital Plan
Federal Reserve's capital plans rule. MetLife (NYSE: MET), the largest U.S. life insurer, made the disclosure in a Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. ...
Source: BestWire   Date: June 19, 2012
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Federal Reserve Fields Comments on Rules for Systemically Important Companies
...Frank Act should apply to large U.S. insurers. The Fed's proposed rule would generally apply to all U.S. bank holding companies with assets of $50 billion or more and any nonbank ...
Source: BestWire   Date: May 1, 2012
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CEO Defends MetLife Activities as Not Risky to US Economy
April 27 conference call. However, if the FSOC names MetLife and other large insurers as SIFIs, "it will be essential to tailor the new prudential rules to the insurance industry." ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 27, 2012
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MetLife Backs Out of the Reverse-Mortgage Business
...Life Bank subsidiary. Terms of the deal, which needs regulatory approval, weren't disclosed. "Given MetLife's strategic focus as a global insurance and employee benefits leader, ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 26, 2012
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MetLife Board Member Castro-Wright Resigns Amid Wal-Mart Bribe Scandal
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., "due to personal reasons." It has been reported that the Wal-Mart Stores Inc. unit that Castro-Wright ran in Mexico paid bribes to government ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 24, 2012
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ING USA Boasts 46.5% Rise in Net Premium to Top 2011 Life Writers
Net premiums written for the top 25 U.S. life/health insurers increased to $391.3 billion in 2011, a 10.9% gain from 2010, according to an A.M. Best Co. Statistical Study. Showing ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 16, 2012
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Limra: US Sales of Variable Annuities Up 13% in 2011 as Writers Face Living Benefit Risks
Insured Retirement Institute. It's a guarantee on the promise of a certain percentage - usually about 5% - of a guaranteed benefit base that could be withdrawn each year for the ...
Source: BestWire   Date: April 2, 2012
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MetLife CEO: Company May Fix or Exit Businesses, Reduce Variable Annuity Sales in 2012
...Life (NYSE: MET) on May 1, 2011. According to the A.M. Best Co. Stock Index, on March 27, the 52-week range for MetLife's stock was $25.61 a share to $46.92 a share, with about ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 27, 2012
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MetLife EVP: Pension Plan Sponsors Not Reliant on 'Traditional Asset Portfolio Diversification'
...Life recently released its 2012 U.S. pension risk behavior index, which takes a look at plan sponsor attitudes and behaviors toward defined benefit pension plan risk management. ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 20, 2012
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California Commissioner Supports MetLife in Wake of Stress Test Failure
News Service, March 14, 2012). The standards the Fed applies in the stress tests are not designed for insurance companies, Jones said in a statement-a point made earlier this week ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 16, 2012
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MetLife Blasts Federal Reserve's Stress Test After Failing to Pass It
Also failing were Citigroup Inc., Ally Financial Inc. and Suntrust Banks Inc., which all have insurance subsidiaries. The stress test, officially dubbed the 2012 Comprehensive ...
Source: BestWire   Date: March 14, 2012
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A.M. Best Analysts Weigh In on Potential Regulatory, Financial Impacts of NAIC Contingent Annuity Debate
Schirripa (Best's News Service, Feb. 23, 2012). However, the subgroup also thinks these products "present risks that are akin to those in financial guaranty insurance," but a ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 27, 2012
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NAIC Subgroup Says Contingent Deferred Annuities Are a Life Insurance Product
Chris Breslin, a spokesman for MetLife, in an email. "We want to work with those in the industry to make that happen." Lisa Bennett, a spokeswoman for Prudential Financial, said ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 23, 2012
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MetLife CEO: Lower Interest Rates May Not Impact Company's 2012 Earnings
... Corporate benefit funding, including the U.S. and UK pension close-out business, saw premiums fees and other revenues jump 44% to $739 million due to sales of pension close-outs. ...
Source: BestWire   Date: February 15, 2012
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Illinois Lawsuit Alleges MetLife, Prudential Failed to Turn Over $524.3 Million in Unclaimed Property
The suit was filed in the Cook County, Ill., state court by Total Asset Recovery Services, an investigation firm specializing in locating lost or unrecovered assets. The suit was ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 24, 2012
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MetLife to Lay Off 4,300 Employees as Its Bank Exits Traditional Residential Mortgage Origination
News Service, July 21, 2011). Last month, MetLife said GE Capital Financial Inc. would acquire most of its bank's depository business. Under the agreement, GE Capital is to buy ...
Source: BestWire   Date: January 11, 2012
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MetLife to Sell Most of Its Bank Depository Business to GE Capital Financial
John Calagna, a spokesman for MetLife Inc. (NYSE: MET), said GE Capital is buying most of the deposit business and the remaining deposits associated with the traditional mortgage ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 27, 2011
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US Life Chiefs Talk 3Q Low Rates, Systemic Risk and Universal Life Insurance Reserves
European debt crisis, along with some key unresolved aspects of U.S. financial services reform and reserving for universal life insurance policies with a secondary death benefit ...
Source: BestWire   Date: December 5, 2011
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MetLife Third-Quarter Net Makes Steep Jump on Major Derivative Gains
...Life on an earnings conference call. As MetLife previously announced, it recently submitted a capital distribution plan to the Federal Reserve for approval that included an ...
Source: BestWire   Date: October 28, 2011
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