Thomas Metzler
Managing Director – Institutional Client Group
thomas.metzler@metlife.com
973-355-4153
About MetLife Investment Management
MetLife Investment Management (MIM) enables insurance companies to leverage the 150-year history of our parent, MetLife, Inc., and partner together to invest on their behalves. MIM has a long track record of investing for insurance companies globally; we combine this experience with a client-centric approach and deep asset class expertise. Focused on managing private debt, real estate and public fixed income, we aim to create customized portfolio solutions across the risk spectrum, including income oriented, constrained portfolios as well as total return strategies. We listen first, strategize second, and collaborate constantly to meet clients’ long-term investment objectives.
Investment Grade Corporate: Market Review and Outlook
Technical Analysis Chart Pack: April 2021
Fundamental economic data continues to support the continued risk-on market sentiment. Learn more in our latest technical analysis chart pack.
Quantitative Portfolio Strategy: Pension & Insurance – Applying A Risk Parity Strategy to a Fixed-Income-Only Portfolio
Avoiding the Crowds: Finding Opportunities in Private Structured Credit
In most fixed-income markets we are back to where we started in 2020 with low rates, tight spreads and warnings from some that asset prices across sectors may be overheated. What are fixed-income investors to do? For MIM’s Private Structured Credit strategy, it’s back to the basics – trying to identify higher-yield, investment grade opportunities that don’t fit neatly into the traditional asset-backed securities market or private securities market and work with borrowers to find financing solutions for these non-conforming sectors.
Emerging Markets 2021: Key Themes for EMBI Investors in a Post Pandemic World
Still Chained: N95 Masks and Supply Chains Lessons During COVID-19
Supply/Demand Mismatches and 2020 Economic Growth
Buying into the Energy Future
What's the Worst that Could Happen?
The Blockchain Blockbuster: Yapese Stones to Central Bank Digital Currencies
Blockchain, a revolutionary way of transmitting information trustlessly through time, has captured the imaginations of software developers, economists, and now, central bank policymakers worldwide. Blockchain is a version of distributed ledger technology, a system whose fundamental structure dates back hundreds of years to the Micronesian island of Yap.1
Private Capital Quarterly Investment Update (4Q 2020)
How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Inflation
Technical Analysis Chart Pack: Jan 2021
A Multispeed Recovery – 2021 Global Risks
Commercial Real Estate Outlook 2021: The winding path to recovery
Seeing the Forest from the Trees: A closer look at SRI investing
Exploring Opportunities in Emerging Markets
High Yield for Insurance Companies: For Everything There is a Season
High yield corporate bonds and bank loans are core asset classes within many insurers’ strategic asset allocation frameworks. While insurers’ exposure to high yield declined in recent years as a result of de-risking actions taken late in the credit cycle, this trend likely has reversed in H1 2020 mainly due to the large magnitude of ratings downgrades; namely fallen angels. Given the complexity of managing insurance company investment portfolios and the inherent higher risk nature of high yield, there are many factors for insurers to consider when assessing the optimal exposure, pursuing portfolio sales and evaluating new investments in the asset class.
Investors Expect and Demand Meaningful Environmental Goals and Progress
There is no doubt that environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles play an increasingly influential role in investment management today. For real estate investors in particular, climate change has arrived as a material risk both in terms of physical risk from floods, hurricanes, and wildfires, as well as transitional risk such as compliance, insurance, and tax increases.
The Social Infrastructure Funding Gap in the United States
The need for investment in U.S. transportation and energy has received a great deal of publicity in recent years. However, the attention on the country’s aging social infrastructure has been less prevalent.