MetLife is a specialist life insurance firm that has been providing personal risk insurance solutions around the world for over 140 years.

The company was originally established in New York in 1863 as the National Union Life and Limb Insurance Company, and today it is the largest provider of life insurance in the United States. Despite this long history, MetLife didn’t arrive in Australia until 2005.

MetLife Australia specialises in providing insurance through various business partners. The range includes life insurance, funeral cover, mortgage protection insurance and credit insurance. Within the life insurance portfolio is term life insurance, income protection, TPD insurance and trauma insurance.

Recognising the major underinsurance problem in Australia, Metlife has partnered with Lifewise to promote the benefits of life insurance and address the current shortfall in cover amongst Australians.

Metlife’s ambition is to become ‘the recognised leader throughout the world for relationship building, connectedness and caring in financial services’.

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