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MetLife Expands Guaranteed Retirement Income Offering with Innovative Flexible Annuity Option

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9:00 AM | Thursday | May 28, 2026

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #401k--As demand for guaranteed lifetime income grows, MetLife today introduced a new liquidity feature for its immediate income annuity, the MetLife Guaranteed Income Program (MGIP). This innovative design offers defined contribution plan participants a simple way to convert savings into reliable income while maintaining greater flexibility early in retirement. The Annuity Cancellation Option gives participants the freedom to cancel their annuity within the first three year.

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9:00 AM | Thursday | May 28, 2026

MetLife Expands Guaranteed Retirement Income Offering with Innovative Flexible Annuity Option

Business Wire

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #401k--As demand for guaranteed lifetime income grows, MetLife today introduced a new liquidity feature for its immediate income annuity, the MetLife Guaranteed Income Program (MGIP). This innovative design offers defined contribution plan participants a simple way to convert savings into reliable income while maintaining greater flexibility early in retirement. The Annuity Cancellation Option gives participants the freedom to cancel their annuity within the first three year.

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9:00 AM | Thursday | May 28, 2026

MetLife Expands Guaranteed Retirement Income Offering with Innovative Flexible Annuity Option

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #401k--As demand for guaranteed lifetime income grows, MetLife today introduced a new liquidity feature for its immediate income annuity, the MetLife Guaranteed Income Program (MGIP). This innovative design offers defined contribution plan participants a simple way to convert savings into reliable income while maintaining greater flexibility early in retirement. The Annuity Cancellation Option gives participants the freedom to cancel their annuity within the first three year.

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4:15 PM | Friday | May 15, 2026

MetLife Declares Second Quarter 2026 Preferred Stock Dividends

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced that it has declared the following preferred stock dividends: Quarterly dividend of $0.31190376 per share on the company's floating rate non-cumulative preferred stock, Series A, with a liquidation preference of $25 per share (NYSE: MET PRA). Quarterly dividend of $351.5625 per share on the company's 5.
625% non-cumulative preferred stock, Series E, with a liquidation preference of $25,000 per share, represented by depositary s.

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9:00 AM | Tuesday | May 12, 2026

MetLife and Global Citizen Launch “Footwork for Futures” Social Media Challenge to Help Expand Access to Education and Sports

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, MetLife and Global Citizen announced Footwork for Futures, a global soccer-themed social media challenge that supports children's access to quality education and sports to foster more confident and resilient communities.

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4:20 PM | Wednesday | May 6, 2026

MetLife CFO John McCallion Provides First Quarter 2026 Financial Update Video

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced that John McCallion, executive vice president and chief financial officer, and head of MetLife Investment Management, has provided a first quarter 2026 financial update video. The video can be viewed on the company's website at https://www.metlife.com/about-us/newsroom/#video.
About MetLife MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), through its subsidiaries and affiliates (“MetLife”), is one of the world's leading financial services companies.

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4:15 PM | Wednesday | May 6, 2026

MetLife Announces 1Q 2026 Results

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced its first quarter 2026 results. Earnings Return Per Share on Equity (ROE)   1Q 2026 1Q 2026   Net Income $1.74 ROE 18.2%   Adjusted Earnings $2.
42 Adjusted ROE 17.0% • Net income increased 30%1 to $1.1 billion, or $1.74 per share.• Adjusted earnings increased 18% to $1.
6 billion, driven by higher variable investment income, volume growth and favorable underwriting.• Adjusted earnings per share increased 23% to $2.42.• Premiums,.

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4:15 PM | Tuesday | Apr 28, 2026

MetLife Increases Common Stock Dividend by 4.4%

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced that its board of directors has declared a second quarter 2026 common stock dividend of $0.5925 per share, an increase of 4.4% from the first quarter common stock dividend of $0.5675 per share.
MetLife has increased its common stock quarterly dividend at an 8.1% compound annual growth rate since 2011. The dividend will be payable on June 9, 2026, to shareholders of record as of May 12, 2026. “We are pleased to increase our com.

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5:24 PM | Tuesday | Apr 14, 2026

MetLife Recommends Shareholders Reject “Mini-Tender” Offer by Potemkin Limited

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) today announced that it has received notice of an unsolicited mini-tender offer by Potemkin Limited (“Potemkin”) to purchase up to 100,000 shares of MetLife, Inc. common stock from MetLife shareholders. The offer is for approximately 0.02 percent of MetLife shares of common stock outstanding as of March 31, 2026.
Potemkin's offer price of $44.20 per share is approximately 41.35 percent lower than the $75.36 closing price of MetLife common sto.

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8:30 AM | Thursday | Apr 9, 2026

MetLife Investment Management Originates $26 Billion in Private Fixed Income Transactions in 2025

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WHIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MetLife Investment Management (MIM), the institutional asset management business of MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), today announced that it originated approximately $26 billion in private fixed income transactions for clients in 2025, increasing total assets under management on MIM's private fixed income platform to $144.7 billion as of December 31, 2025.
1 MIM's private fixed income platform comprises private corporate and infrastructure debt, private asset-based fin.

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4:15 PM | Wednesday | Apr 8, 2026

MetLife to Announce First Quarter 2026 Results

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) will release its first quarter 2026 financial results on Wednesday, May 6, 2026, after the market closes. The earnings news release, financial supplement and related materials will be posted on MetLife's Investor Relations webpage at investor.metlife.com.
MetLife will hold its first quarter 2026 earnings conference call on Thursday, May 7, 2026, from 9-10 a.m. (ET) via a live webcast. Please click on the following link to register: https://ev.

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9:00 AM | Tuesday | Apr 7, 2026

Cost Pressures Are Reshaping Today's Small and Mid-Sized Business Workforce

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- #HR--Small and mid-sized (SMB) businesses are navigating an increasingly complex environment marked by rising costs, heightened employee financial stress, and growing expectations. New insights from MetLife's 2026 U.S. Employee Benefit Trends Study (EBTS) show that affordability pressures are reshaping how SMB employers operate and how their employees experience work. Employers with fewer than 1,000 employees cite rising medical costs (72%) and the increasing cost of doing.

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