Manager Selection
MetLife CIO Steven Goulart to Retire in August
The firm has a mandatory age-65 retirement policy, although it has been waived in the past; several corresponding promotions were also announced.
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Pensions
US Pension Risk Transfer Market Hit $51.8 Billion in 2022
Higher interest rates drove a spike in transactions, Aon reports.
Research
Economic Concerns Likely to Spur Pension Risk Transfers
The vast majority of plan sponsors say inflation and rising rates are influencing their de-risking decisions.
Pensions
Funding Status of Pensions Increases Marginally Despite Equity Market Downturn
Concluding the September pension watch, two consultants monitored that funding ratios in U.S. plans had eclipsed over 100% funded.
Pensions
Plan Sponsors Look to Drop Liabilities Like Bad Habits
More than 90% of corporate DB plans with de-risking goals say they expect to divest all their plan liabilities in the next five years.
Coronavirus - COVID-19
COVID-19 Has Shaken Up Vast Majority of Plan Sponsors
But the pandemic has not slowed down pension buyout activity.
Asset Management Culture
Rising Funded Levels, PBGC Premiums Spur Pension Buyout Record
Increased volatility caused by coronavirus likely to keep risk transfer market booming.
Pensions
MetLife Secures $1.9 Billion Pension Deal with Lockheed Martin
The aerospace giant will transfer liabilities to the insurer, roughly 20,000 retirees and current workers.
Regulation
MetLife to Pay SEC $10 Million Fine Over Pension Accounting Violations
Firm assumed annuitants were dead or unreachable if they didn’t respond to two mailings.
Asset Allocation
Poland Approves Plans to Overhaul Pension System
The funds will be used to boost revenues.
Exclusive: MetLife’s Ellermeyer Shifts to Apollo Insurance Operation
Investment pro to help manage insurance assets at Leon Black’s shop, which got its start with a defunct insurer’s junk bonds.
More Corporate DB Plans Want to Dump Liabilities ASAP
Many businesses are looking to unload all retirement assets within five years, MetLife survey shows.
Regulation
MetLife Pension Payout Snafu Leads to $1 Million Fine
Insurer failed to pay 13,500 pensioners incorrectly labeled as ‘presumed dead.’
Risk
FedEx Sending $6 Billion in Pension Liabilities to MetLife
Transaction is largest risk transfer in US since Verizon/Prudential deal.
Newsmakers
N.J. Seeks Retirees Owed Money by MetLife
More than 1,000 residents were not paid because the company said it couldn’t find them.