MetLife, Inc.’s MET institutional asset management unit named MetLife Investment Management (MIM) recently disclosed that it executed new commercial real estate debt and equity transactions worth ...

Finding yield in the current commercial real estate lending landscape can be, well, a “Merck”-y task. But even in the risk-averse land of life insurers, some companies are digging up returns. Life ...

MetLife has a $35.9 billion commercial mortgage portfolio with an average loan-to-value (LTV) of 57% based on the company’s most recent valuations. 8% of the portfolio has an LTV above 75%, including ...

SunTrust Banks (STI) in Atlanta has committed $5 billion to fund commercial mortgages originated by MetLife (MET). The $172 billion-asset company has agreed to fund MetLife's newly formed real estate ...

MetLife Investment Management, the New York-based institutional asset management platform for MetLife Inc., and Boston’s State Street Corp. have signed a multi-year agreement in which MetLife ...

Robert Merck is still trying to score his first hole in one in golf, he told Mortgage Observer one recent afternoon, half in jest. In addition to that more leisurely goal is another involving slightly ...

WHIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--MetLife Investment Management (MIM), the institutional asset management business of MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), today announced that it completed $10.7 billion in new ...

First some background. The SIFI designation was part of the fallout of the recent recession. After financial giants such as Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns went under and the government spent ...

MetLife Inc.'s chief investment officer, Steven Kandarian, said commercial mortgage defaults will rise in the next two to three years after the economic slump subsides. "The worst is to come," ...

MetLife Originates over $9.6 Billion in Commercial Mortgages and Invests $1.7 Billion in Real Estate Equity in 2012 "MetLife was a very active lender domestically and internationally in 2012, as we ...

MetLife, Inc.’s MET institutional asset management unit named MetLife Investment Management (MIM) recently disclosed that it executed new commercial real estate debt and equity transactions worth ...