MetLife, Inc. engages in providing insurance and financial services to individual and institutional customers. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York and currently employs 45,000 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2000-04-05. Its segments include Group Benefits; Retirement and Income Solutions (RIS); Asia; Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA); and MetLife Holdings. Group Benefits segment offers life insurance, dental, group short- and long-term disability, paid family and medical leave, individual disability, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, accident and health insurance, and vision, as well as prepaid legal plans and pet insurance. RIS segment provides funding and financing solutions that help institutional customers mitigate and manage liabilities primarily associated with their employee benefit programs using a spectrum of life and annuity-based insurance and investment products. The company operates across EMEA in both developed (Western Europe) and emerging (Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa) markets.