MetLife’sUKbusiness has been voted Financial Adviser Company of the Year 2012 by theUK’s independent financial advisers (IFAs). It is the second time in three years that MetLifeUKhas won this highly regarded industry award which is organised by Financial Adviser, the Financial Times Group’s leading IFA publication.
In addition to Company of the Year, MetLife also retained its 5 Star Service Awards for Life, Pensions and Investments for the third year running, scoring very highly across a wide range of performance measures.
Dominic Grinstead, Managing Director, MetLifeUK, said: “The achievement reflects a superb team effort by everyone in theUKbusiness and is all the more remarkable given that we only recently celebrated our fifth anniversary.
“Core to our strategy is listening to the needs of financial advisers and their customers so that we can deliver innovation, value and an enhanced service proposition.
“We passed the £3 billion assets under management milestone this year and have a clear growth strategy in theUKfocused on the intermediary market and innovation in the retirement income, investment and employee benefit sectors.”
In February, MetLife launched its Managed Wealth Portfolios managed by world-leading asset manager BlackRock, which help savers better manage market fluctuations while still having the potential to achieve growth. Their launch enabled MetLife to enhance its product range through the introduction of annual unlimited lock-ins of potential gains on its range of capital and income guarantee products, and to offer an enhanced annual deferred income increase of 4.25% on its income guaranteed products.
