Having spun off its legacy US-life-insurance business (now trading as BHF), MET is both a conservative stock and a thematic name for this message board, deriving a substantial portion of sales and profits from emerging markets.
Moreover, MET’s earnings will increase if long-term interest rates rise a little (but not unduly).
Last but not least, the stock is currently cheap due to some one-off mishaps (such as not paying all of the pensioners who owned policies).
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