Yahoo Finance MetLife (MET) Originates $15.1 billion in Private Placement Debt
MetLife Inc’s MET asset management business MetLife Investment Management (“MIM”) has announced that it originated $15.1 billion of private placement debt and structured credit in 2022. The above amount includes $4.1 billion of investments made for unaffiliated institutional clients.
MIM originated $8.5 billion, $1.9 billion and $4.7 billion worth of private placement in corporate, structured credit and infrastructure, respectively. It also added 94 new issuers to the portfolio. This aligns with MIM’s objective of diversifying across different issuers to protect its client’s wealth.
The corporate private placements team achieved growth in origination volume in the past year, owing to the strength of sourcing capabilities and relationships with agent banks, boutique advisory firms and its direct origination platform. This was achieved despite a slowdown in capital markets.
With the core focus being diversification, corporate private placement origination of $3.1 billion was spread across U.K. and European issuers. It accounted for 37% of total origination for 2022. Credit tenant leases origination volume grew 50% from 2021, indicating MIM’s efforts on executing the opportunities in this sector.
MIM’s private structured credit investments were well diversified across commercial property assessed clean energy, low-income housing, residential credit, alternative financing and energy. Due to the increasing volatility of public-market pricing and increasing financial regulations, issuers are turning to private debt, which will increase private placement assets under MIM management and further increase MIM management fees.
MIM also provides capital for social and economic infrastructure development projects, benefiting from stable and predictable cash flows. Infrastructure origination in 2022 was diversified across assets related to transportation like rail, airport, marine projects, ports and toll roads. The top five areas of investment in 2022 included renewable power, communication, water utilities and social housing assets and projects.
Total Private Placement assets under management as of Dec 31, 2022, was $89.5 billion.
Price Performance
Shares of MetLife have lost 13.8% year to date compared with the industry’sdecline of 9.8%.
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Zacks Rank & Key Picks
MetLife Inc currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
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