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  • US insurers pulling out of hedge funds

    14 August 2018

    Although insurers tend to have relatively low exposures to hedge funds, in recent years investments in the asset class have dropped amongst US insurers. However, changes in the economic environment suggest this trend could be reversed in the coming years. Vincent Huck reports

  • Metlife IM and Northwestern Mutual invest $450m in US retail centre

    17 July 2018

    12-year fixed rate loan made to a joint venture between The Macerich Company and Northwestern Mutual

  • US commercial real estate: danger in disguise?

    10 July 2018

    US life insurers are big investors in commercial real estate attracted by the yield and diversification benefits they offer. But with strong indicators of the current credit cycle nearing its end, the risks attached to the sector are growing. Is it still safe to go into those waters? By Sarfraz Thind

  • MetLife buys €100m green bonds

    04 April 2018

    MetLife Investment Management, the asset management arm of US insurer MetLife, has purchased €100m ($123m) of green bonds from WDP, a real estate investment company based in Belgium.

  • The risks and rewards of leveraged finance: senior secured loans

    15 December 2017

    With European insurers showing increasing interest in allocating to senior secured loans – a more popular investment for US counterparts – David Turner explores how and why insurers either side of the Atlantic are approaching the asset class.

  • MetLife agrees $250m cash deal for US bond manager

    10 July 2017

    Purchase of Logan Circle Partners to bring the group's total assets under management to $560bn

  • MetLife IM targets institutional client growth with hire in Japan

    07 February 2017

    Maya Kiyokawa joins to grow client base in "vital and growing" Asian market

  • The unorthodox CIO behind MetLife's expansion

    25 January 2017

    MetLife's CIO Steve Goulart manages one of the biggest and most diverse insurance asset portfolios in the US. While the insurer is feeling the pinch of low interest rates, its diversification has helped to calm some of the yield pressure. Sarfraz Thind reports

  • MetLife investor group provides 20-year money to Finnish electric company

    04 November 2014

    Energy added to insurer's infrastructure investments in Europe

  • MetLife expands Brazilian agricultural loan portfolio

    16 October 2014

    $150m deal for Amaggi follows investments in Seattle industrial parks and Copenhagen airport