MetLife Completes Risk Transfer Transaction With Global Atlantic Financial Group
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As part of MetLife’s ongoing commitment to its customers, the company will remain as administrator and service provider for the policies to be reinsured. MetLife Investment Management will also manage a significant amount of the assets under a five-year investment management agreement.
“We are pleased to have closed this transaction, which illustrates MetLife’s capacity to execute as well as our commitment to reduce enterprise risk and deploy capital to its highest and best use,” said MetLife President and CEO Michel Khalaf.
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- economic condition difficulties, including risks relating to public health, interest rates, credit spreads, equity, real estate, obligors and counterparties, government default, currency exchange rates, derivatives, climate change and terrorism and security;
- global capital and credit market adversity;
- credit facility inaccessibility;
- financial strength or credit ratings downgrades;
- unavailability, unaffordability, or inadequate reinsurance, including reinsurance risks that arise from reinsurers’ credit risk, and the potential shortfall or failure of risk mitigants to protect against such risks;
- statutory life insurance reserve financing costs or limited market capacity;
- legal, regulatory, and supervisory and enforcement policy changes;
- changes in tax rates, tax laws or interpretations;
- litigation and regulatory investigations;
- London Interbank Offered Rate discontinuation and transition to alternative reference rates;
- unsuccessful efforts to meet all environmental, social, and governance standards or to enhance our sustainability;
- MetLife, Inc.’s inability to pay dividends and repurchase common stock;
- MetLife, Inc.’s subsidiaries’ inability to pay dividends to MetLife, Inc.;
- investment defaults, downgrades, or volatility;
- investment sales or lending difficulties;
- collateral or derivative-related payments;
- investment valuations, allowances, or impairments changes;
- claims or other results that differ from our estimates, assumptions, or models;
- global political, legal, or operational risks;
- business competition;
- technological changes;
- catastrophes;
- climate changes or responses to it;
- deficiencies in our closed block;
- goodwill or other asset impairment, or deferred income tax asset allowance;
- impairment of value of business acquired, value of distribution agreements acquired or value of customer relationships acquired;
- product guarantee volatility, costs, and counterparty risks;
- risk management failures;
- insufficient protection from operational risks;
- failure to protect confidentiality and integrity of data or other cybersecurity or disaster recovery failures;
- accounting standards changes;
- excessive risk-taking;
- marketing and distribution difficulties;
- pension and other postretirement benefit assumption changes;
- inability to protect our intellectual property or avoid infringement claims;
- acquisition, integration, growth, disposition, or reorganization difficulties;
- Brighthouse Financial, Inc. separation risks;
- MetLife, Inc.’s Board of Directors influence over the outcome of stockholder votes through the voting provisions of the MetLife Policyholder Trust; and
- legal- and corporate governance-related effects on business combinations.
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About MetLife
MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), through its subsidiaries and affiliates (“MetLife”), is one of the world’s leading financial services companies, providing insurance, annuities, employee benefits and asset management to help individual and institutional customers build a more confident future. Founded in 1868, MetLife has operations in more than 40 markets globally and holds leading positions in
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