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Segment Information
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Segment Reporting [Abstract]  
Segment Information 2. Segment Information
MetLife is organized into six segments: Group Benefits, RIS, Asia, Latin America, EMEA and MetLife Holdings. In addition, the Company reports certain of its results of operations in Corporate & Other. In the fourth quarter of 2024, the Company adopted ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280): Improvements to Reportable Segment Disclosures. As such, the disclosures have been enhanced to reflect the adoption of this update.
Group Benefits
The Group Benefits segment, based in the United States (“U.S.”), offers a broad range of products to corporations and their respective employees, other institutions and their respective members, as well as individuals. These products include term, variable and universal life insurance, dental, group and individual disability, accident & health insurance and vision.
RIS
The RIS segment, based in the U.S., offers a broad range of life and annuity-based insurance and investment products to corporations and their respective employees, other institutions and their respective members, as well as individuals. These products include stable value and pension risk transfer products, institutional income annuities, structured settlements, longevity reinsurance solutions, benefit funding solutions, funded reinsurance solutions, and capital markets investment products.
Asia
The Asia segment offers a broad range of products and services to both individuals and corporations, as well as to other institutions, and their respective employees, which include life insurance, accident & health insurance and retirement and savings.
Latin America
The Latin America segment offers a broad range of products to both individuals and corporations, as well as to other institutions, and their respective employees, which include life insurance, retirement and savings, accident & health insurance and credit insurance.
EMEA
The EMEA segment offers products to individuals, corporations, other institutions, and their respective employees, which include life insurance, retirement and savings, accident & health insurance and credit insurance.
MetLife Holdings
The MetLife Holdings segment principally consists of operations relating to products and businesses that the Company no longer actively markets in the U.S. These include variable, universal, term and whole life insurance, variable, fixed and index-linked annuities and long-term care insurance. It also includes an in-force block of assumed variable annuity guarantees from a third party.
Financial Measure and Segment Accounting Policies
Adjusted earnings is used by the Company’s chief operating decision maker, its chief executive officer, to evaluate performance and allocate resources. Adjusted earnings and related measures based on adjusted earnings are also the measures by which senior management’s and many other employees’ performance is evaluated for the purposes of determining their compensation under applicable compensation plans. Adjusted earnings and related measures based on adjusted earnings allow analysis of the Company’s performance relative to its business plan and facilitate comparisons to industry results.
Consistent with GAAP guidance for segment reporting, adjusted earnings is the Company’s GAAP measure of segment performance and is reported below. The Company believes the presentation of adjusted earnings enhances its investors’ understanding of its performance by highlighting the results of operations and the underlying profitability drivers of the business.
Adjusted earnings focuses on the Company’s primary businesses principally by excluding the impact of (i) market volatility which could distort trends, (ii) asymmetrical and non-economic accounting, (iii) revenues and costs related to
divested businesses, and (iv) other adjustments. Also, adjusted earnings excludes results of discontinued operations under GAAP.
Market volatility can have a significant impact on the Company’s financial results. Adjusted earnings for the Company’s segments excludes net investment gains (losses), net derivative gains (losses), market risk benefit (“MRB”) remeasurement gains (losses) and goodwill impairments. Further, net investment income is adjusted to exclude similar items relating to joint ventures accounted for under the equity method, and policyholder benefits and claims exclude (i) changes in the discount rate on certain annuitization guarantees accounted for as additional liabilities and (ii) market value adjustments.
Asymmetrical and non-economic accounting adjustments are made in calculating adjusted earnings for the Company’s segments:
Net investment income includes earned income on derivatives and amortization of premium on derivatives that are hedges of investments or that are used to replicate certain investments, but do not qualify for hedge accounting treatment.
Other revenues include settlements of foreign currency earnings hedges and exclude asymmetrical accounting associated with in-force reinsurance.
Policyholder benefits and claims excludes (i) amortization of basis adjustments associated with de-designated fair value hedges of future policy benefits (“FPBs”), (ii) inflation-indexed benefit adjustments associated with contracts backed by inflation-indexed investments, (iii) asymmetrical accounting associated with in-force reinsurance, and (iv) non-economic losses incurred at contract inception for certain single premium annuity business. These losses are amortized into adjusted earnings within policyholder benefits and claims over the estimated lives of the contracts.
Policyholder liability remeasurement gains (losses) excludes asymmetrical accounting associated with in-force reinsurance.
Interest credited to policyholder account balances (“PABs”) excludes amounts associated with periodic crediting rate adjustments based on the total return of a contractually referenced pool of assets and other pass-through adjustments and asymmetrical accounting associated with in-force reinsurance.
“Divested businesses” are those that have been or will be sold or exited by MetLife but do not meet the discontinued operations criteria under GAAP. Divested businesses also include the net impact of transactions with exited businesses that have been eliminated in consolidation under GAAP and costs relating to businesses that have been or will be sold or exited by MetLife that do not meet the criteria to be included in results of discontinued operations under GAAP.
Other adjustments, which are applicable to the Company’s segments, are made in calculating adjusted earnings:
Net investment income and interest credited to PABs exclude certain amounts related to contractholder-directed equity securities.
Other expenses exclude (i) implementation of new insurance regulatory requirements and other costs, and (ii) acquisition, integration and other related costs. Other expenses include (i) deductions for net income attributable to noncontrolling interests, and (ii) benefits accrued on synthetic guaranteed interest contracts (“GICs”) accounted for as freestanding derivatives.
Net investment income and other expenses also exclude Reinsurance adjustments (as defined below).
Other revenues include fee revenue on synthetic GICs accounted for as freestanding derivatives.
Other revenues exclude and other expenses include fees received in connection with services provided under transition service agreements.
“Reinsurance adjustments” relate to amounts subject to ceded reinsurance arrangements with third parties, including (i) the related investment returns and expenses which are passed through to the third-party reinsurers and (ii) the corresponding invested assets and cash and cash equivalents.
Adjusted earnings also excludes the recognition of certain contingent assets and liabilities that could not be recognized at acquisition or adjusted for during the measurement period under GAAP business combination accounting guidance.
The tax impact of the adjustments mentioned above are calculated net of the U.S. or foreign statutory tax rate, which could differ from the Company’s effective tax rate. Additionally, the provision for income tax (expense) benefit also includes the impact related to the timing of certain tax credits, as well as certain tax reforms.
The Company’s segment accounting policies are the same as those used to prepare the Company’s interim condensed consolidated financial statements. In addition, segment accounting policies include the method of capital allocation described below.
Economic capital is an internally developed risk capital model, the purpose of which is to measure the risk in the business and to provide a basis upon which capital is deployed. The economic capital model accounts for the unique and specific nature of the risks inherent in the Company’s business.
The Company’s economic capital model, coupled with considerations of local capital requirements, aligns segment allocated equity with emerging standards and consistent risk principles. The model applies statistics-based risk evaluation principles to the material risks to which the Company is exposed. These consistent risk principles include calibrating required economic capital shock factors to a specific confidence level and time horizon while applying an industry standard method for the inclusion of diversification benefits among risk types. The Company’s management is responsible for the ongoing production and enhancement of the economic capital model and reviews its approach periodically to ensure that it remains consistent with emerging industry practice standards.
Segment net investment income is credited or charged based on the level of allocated equity; however, changes in allocated equity do not impact the Company’s consolidated net investment income, net income (loss) or adjusted earnings.
Net investment income is based upon the actual results of each segment’s specifically identifiable investment portfolios adjusted for allocated equity. Expenses are allocated to each of the segments based upon: (i) a review of the nature of such costs; (ii) time studies analyzing the amount of employee compensation costs incurred by each segment; and (iii) cost estimates included in the Company’s product pricing.
Corporate & Other
Corporate & Other contains various start-up, developing and run-off businesses. Also included in Corporate & Other are: the excess capital, as well as certain charges and activities, not allocated to the segments (including external integration and disposition costs, internal resource costs for associates committed to acquisitions and dispositions and enterprise-wide strategic initiatives), interest expense related to the majority of the Company’s outstanding debt, expenses associated with certain legal proceedings and income tax audit issues, the elimination of intersegment amounts (which generally relate to investment expenses and intersegment loans bearing interest rates commensurate with related borrowings), and the Company’s institutional investment management business (through which the Company provides investment management solutions to institutional investors worldwide in insurance solutions, fixed income, private capital, real estate and small to medium cap equities).
The financial measure and accounting policies used to prepare the Company’s segment results are the same as those used to prepare results for Corporate & Other. See “— Financial Measure and Segment Accounting Policies.”
Set forth in the tables below is certain financial information with respect to the Company’s segments for the three months and six months ended June 30, 2025 and 2024.
Three Months Ended June 30, 2025Group BenefitsRISAsiaLatin
America
EMEAMetLife
Holdings
(In millions)
Revenues
Premiums$5,801 $1,210 $1,278 $1,260 $626 $624 
Universal life and investment-type product policy fees240 85 399 371 84 80 
Net investment income (1)
310 2,145 1,210 445 61 964 
Other revenues405 60 22 36 
Expenses
Policyholder benefits and claims and policyholder dividends5,161 2,043 1,051 1,216 309 1,164 
Policyholder liability remeasurement (gains) losses(4)(12)— 16 
Interest credited to PABs43 878 757 96 20 90 
Other expenses:
Amortization of deferred policy acquisition costs (“DAC”), value of business acquired (“VOBA”) and negative VOBA18 223 137 88 53 
Interest expense on debt— — 
Direct and allocated expenses503 80 304 143 111 158 
Other segment expenses (2)538 19 91 166 120 43 
Provision for income tax expense (benefit)
107 90 145 84 28 33 
Adjusted earnings$400 $368 $350 $233 $100 $144 
Three Months Ended June 30, 2024Group BenefitsRISAsiaLatin
America
EMEAMetLife
Holdings
(In millions)
Revenues
Premiums$5,599 $2,448 $1,216 $1,122 $536 $692 
Universal life and investment-type product policy fees229 73 434 373 77 94 
Net investment income (1)
313 2,117 1,167 398 54 1,016 
Other revenues382 61 18 11 37 
Expenses
Policyholder benefits and claims and policyholder dividends4,780 3,248 988 1,018 265 1,252 
Policyholder liability remeasurement (gains) losses(23)(4)(3)17 
Interest credited to PABs48 838 657 115 17 106 
Other expenses:
Amortization of DAC, VOBA and negative VOBA
16 202 129 81 57 
Interest expense on debt— — 
Direct and allocated expenses490 74 272 145 104 156 
Other segment expenses (2)521 25 95 185 109 60 
Provision for income tax expense (benefit)141 108 176 85 21 35 
Adjusted earnings$533 $410 $449 $226 $77 $153 
Six Months Ended June 30, 2025Group
Benefits
RISAsiaLatin
America
EMEAMetLife
Holdings
(In millions)
Revenues
Premiums$11,564 $3,494 $2,538 $2,424 $1,208 $1,281 
Universal life and investment-type product policy fees473 170 805 711 162 166 
Net investment income (1)625 4,312 2,416 852 119 1,953 
Other revenues839 121 37 12 17 73 
Expenses
Policyholder benefits and claims and policyholder dividends10,344 5,164 2,088 2,307 586 2,364 
Policyholder liability remeasurement (gains) losses(22)(14)(23)(3)32 
Interest credited to PABs87 1,737 1,468 194 37 178 
Other expenses:
Amortization of DAC, VOBA and negative VOBA
13 35 439 266 182 108 
Interest expense on debt— — 
Direct and allocated expenses1,027 165 610 278 220 326 
Other segment expenses (2)1,080 46 183 342 240 92 
Provision for income tax expense (benefit)204 189 307 156 54 69 
Adjusted earnings$767 $769 $724 $451 $183 $298 

Six Months Ended June 30, 2024Group
Benefits
RISAsiaLatin
America
EMEAMetLife
Holdings
(In millions)
Revenues
Premiums$11,310 $3,123 $2,513 $2,237 $1,072 $1,405 
Universal life and investment-type product policy fees451 148 860 743 154 172 
Net investment income (1)
628 4,206 2,275 784 108 2,026 
Other revenues779 124 39 22 15 87 
Expenses
Policyholder benefits and claims and policyholder dividends10,016 4,719 2,055 2,001 523 2,503 
Policyholder liability remeasurement (gains) losses(1)(22)(36)(11)37 
Interest credited to PABs
96 1,634 1,304 229 36 209 
Other expenses:
Amortization of DAC, VOBA and negative VOBA
13 31 407 254 171 116 
Interest expense on debt— — 
Direct and allocated expenses
995 154 554 285 205 321 
Other segment expenses (2)
1,015 56 196 379 212 113 
Provision for income tax expense (benefit)216 213 335 183 47 72 
Adjusted earnings$817 $809 $872 $459 $154 $312 
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(1)The percentage of net investment income from equity method invested assets by segment was as follows:
Three Months Ended June 30,Six Months Ended June 30,
2025202420252024
Group Benefits— %— %— %%
RIS%%%%
Asia10 %12 %10 %10 %
MetLife Holdings%%%%
(2)Includes pension, postretirement and postemployment benefit costs; premium taxes, other taxes, and licenses & fees; and commissions and other variable expenses. This line item is net of capitalization of DAC.
The Company does not report total assets by segment, as this metric is not used to allocate resources or evaluate segment performance.
The following table presents the reconciliation of certain financial measures used in calculating segment results to those used in calculating consolidated Company results:
Three Months
Ended
June 30,
Six Months
Ended
June 30,
2025202420252024
(In millions)(In millions)
Total segment adjusted earnings$1,595 $1,848 $3,192 $3,423 
Corporate & Other(202)(186)(384)(360)
Total consolidated adjusted earnings1,393 1,662 2,808 3,063 
Net investment gains (losses)(273)(421)(660)(796)
Net derivative gains (losses)(796)(508)(364)(1,487)
MRB remeasurement gains (losses)
277 182 (22)876 
Investment hedge adjustments(102)(172)(205)(348)
Other41 (60)(90)(10)
Provision for income tax (expense) benefit195 270 218 530 
Net income (loss) $735 $953 $1,685 $1,828 
Segment revenues:
Group$6,756 $6,523 $13,501 $13,168 
RIS3,500 4,699 8,097 7,601 
Asia2,909 2,835 5,796 5,687 
Latin America2,079 1,904 3,999 3,786 
EMEA780 675 1,506 1,349 
MetLife Holdings1,704 1,839 3,473 3,690 
Total segment revenues17,728 18,475 36,372 35,281 
Net investment gains (losses)(273)(421)(660)(796)
Net derivative gains (losses)(796)(508)(364)(1,487)
Investment hedge adjustments(102)(172)(205)(348)
Unit-linked investment income and Reinsurance adjustments545 219 361 761 
Other238 230 405 469 
Total consolidated revenues$17,340 $17,823 $35,909 $33,880