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• Mid-Caps Are Outperforming Large- and Small-Caps

  Alan Brochstein, CFA submits: Though it has more exposure to Financials and less to Energy relative to the S&P 500, the S&P 400 Mid-Cap index is significantly outperforming the Large-Cap index thus far QTD and YTD.  Curiously, it is also outperforming the S&P 600 Small-Cap index as well. ...

  External links 2008-06-30

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• Met Life: High Quality, Low Risk Financial

  George Spritzer submits: I think this may be a good time to look for high quality, low risk financials for longer term time frames. I think Met Life MET fits the bill at a price of 57 or less. To provide additional downside protection as well as more upside...

  External links 2008-06-19

  Tags: Financial, MetLife Inc.

• MetLife, Inc. Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  MetLife, Inc. Q1 2008 Earnings Call Transcript

  Earnings calls 2008-05-02

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• MetLi Fe, Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript

  MetLi Fe, Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript

  Earnings calls 2008-02-07

  Tags: MetLife Inc., Call Transcript, Earnings, Seeking Alpha, Financial Accounting, Finance

• Staking a Claim To Excellence With An Offshore Component

  Metropolitan Life Insurance is the largest life insurer in the United States with approximately $2.1 trillion in life insurance in force as of December 31, 2001. MetLife had not invested in the latest technology for processing claims. As late as 1999, however, most of its claims processing was paper based...

  Case studies 2003-01-01

  Tags: Insurance, MetLife Inc., optical character recognition, life insurance, imaging, outsourcing, performance

• BearingPoint Helps MetLife Develop Web-Based Benefits Platform: MetLife

  With more than 46,000 employees and over $32 billion in operating revenue, MetLife is the largest life insurer, with over $2 trillion in life insurance in force as of December 31, 2001. MetLife needed to develop and implement a secure online enrollment system that would integrate with a customer's existing...

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• MetLife to Hold Conference Call for Second Quarter 2008 Results

  NEW YORK -- MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) will hold its second quarter 2008 earnings conference call and audio Webcast on Wednesday, July 30, 2008, from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. ET. These events will follow MetLife's issuance of its second quarter earnings press release on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, after the...

  Articles 2008-07-01

• MetLife Estate Resolution Services Enhances Supplemental Group Life Benefits

  NEW YORK -- MetLife, the largest U.S. life insurer and a leading provider of employee benefits, today announced that it has enhanced its group life benefits portfolio by adding estate resolution services as a standard feature to its supplemental Term Life, Group Universal Life GUL and Group Variable Universal Life...

  Articles 2008-06-30

• LifeSecure Insurance Company Names New Vice President of Sales

  BRIGHTON, Mich., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- LifeSecure Insurance Company LifeSecure, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, today announced the executive appointment of Ron Hagen to vice president of sales. Hagen is an accomplished sales executive with extensive knowledge of the long term care...

  Articles 2008-06-30

• Case Digests

  U.S. Supreme Court Erisa Disability Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Glenn No. 06-923 Certiorari to the Sixth Circuit Background: The petitioner is an administrator and...

  Articles 2008-06-26

• U.S. Supreme Court Case Summaries: June 26, 2008

  U.S. Supreme Court ERISA Disability Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. v. Glenn No. 06-923 Certiorari to the Sixth Circuit Background: The petitioner is an administrator and insurer of the Sears disability plan, which...

  Articles 2008-06-26

• An Alarming 43% of Pre-Retirees Incorrectly Believe They Can Annually Draw Down 10% or More of Their Savings in Retirement

  - MetLife Mature Market Survey Reveals Pre-Retirees Overestimate How Much They Can Withdraw Each Year in Retirement and Underestimate Life Expectancy and Retirement Income Needs, Putting Them at Risk of Outliving Their Assets - WESTPORT, Conn. -- Five years after the release of MetLife's first Retirement Income IQ...

  Articles 2008-06-25

• Ashford Hospitality Refinances Sole 2008 Debt Maturity

  DALLAS -- Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc. (NYSE: AHT) today announced it has refinanced its sole debt maturity in 2008. The Company refinanced its $73.5 million loan with MetLife that is secured by interests in the Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf Resort in Tucson, Arizona, and the Hilton Dallas Lincoln Centre...

  Articles 2008-06-25

• Libbey Wins Stevie Award for Best Customer Service Organization in 2008 American Business Awards

  TOLEDO, Ohio, June 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Libbey Inc. , the leading manufacturer of tabletop products for the U.S. foodservice and retail industries, is proud to announce that it has won a Stevie Award for Best Customer Service Organization in the 2008 American Business Awards sponsored this year by Dow...

  Articles 2008-06-24

• Small Businesses Have Strategic Opportunities to Improve Their Offense in Competition for Employee Talent, According to MetLife Study

  - Action Needed to Retain Employees, Compete with Larger Employers for Qualified Candidates - NEW YORK -- Workplace benefits are being viewed as an important employee retention tool by small businesses. More than half (55%) of smaller employers, those with fewer than 500 employees, say benefits play a...

  Articles 2008-06-23

• Boomers in the mood to give back to society

  Baby boomers who came of age in the era of John F. Kennedy's civic call to arms are now, in the second half of their lives, not just asking themselves what they can do for their country, but they're actually doing it. A new telephone and Internet survey,...

  Articles 2008-06-19

• Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company Completes $450 Million Private Placement of Senior Unsecured Notes

  Kayne Anderson MLP Investment Company (the"Company") (NYSE: KYN) announced today that it has completed a privateplacement of $450 million, aggregate principal amount, of senior unsecuredfixed and floating rate notes (the "Senior Unsecured Notes") toinstitutional accredited investors. The proceeds from the privateplacement combined with borrowings under the Company's credit facility...

  Articles 2008-06-19

• Outliving Retirement Savings a Global Employee Concern, MetLife Research Finds

  Many Workers May Be Under Prepared in India, Mexico, U.K., Australia and U.S.; Looking to Workplace for Solutions NEW YORK -- Despite worries about funding a comfortable retirement or outliving their retirement savings, many full-time workers in developing and mature economies, including the United States, have taken few...

  Articles 2008-06-18

• Aon Consulting Announces New Hire in Chicago Office

  Grace Cowan to lead Life, Disability and Elective Benefits National Practice CHICAGO, June 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Aon Consulting Worldwide, the global human capital consulting organization of Aon Corporation , today announced that Grace Cowan has joined the Chicago office as senior vice president and national director of...

  Articles 2008-06-16

• MetLife to Be the First Major Marketing Partner of the New Meadowlands Stadium in NJ

  New Home of the New York Giants and New York Jets NEW YORK -- MetLife, Inc. (NYSE:MET) has reached an agreement in principle to be the first major marketing partner of the new Meadowlands stadium in New Jersey, future home of the New York Giants and New York...

  Articles 2008-06-16