Employer Profile: MetLife Inc.

MetLife, Inc. and its subsidiaries provide insurance and other financial services to individual and institutional customers worldwide. It offers life insurance, annuities, automobile, and homeowner's insurance; and retail banking services to individuals, as well as group insurance, reinsurance, and retirement and savings products and services.

The company operates through five segments: Institutional, Individual, Auto and Home, International, and Reinsurance. The Institutional segment offers a range of group insurance products, such as group life insurance; nonmedical health insurance products, including accidental death and dismemberment, long-term care, short- and long-term disability, and dental insurance; and related administrative services, as well as provides retirement and savings products and services, including an array of annuity and investment products; and administrative and investment services to corporations and other institutions.

The Individual segment offers various protection and asset accumulation products, including insurance products, such as traditional, universal, and variable life insurance; and variable and fixed annuities, mutual funds, and securities. The Auto and Home segment offers auto insurance, including both standard and nonstandard private passenger; homeowner's, renters, condominium, and dwelling insurance; and other personal insurance, including umbrella, recreational vehicles, and boat owners. The International segment provides life insurance, accident and health insurance, annuities, and retirement and savings products to both individuals and groups. The Reinsurance segment primarily offers traditional life and critical illness reinsurance; and financial reinsurance.

The company operates primarily in the United States, as well as in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan, and Uruguay. MetLife was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in New York City.