Retirement Risk Transfer Strategy: PRT, Retiree Medical & Retiree Life
Defined benefit pension plans and post-retirement benefits, including retiree medical buyouts and retiree life solutions, help organizations support employees beyond their working years. These programs continue to play an important role in helping individuals maintain access to valuable benefits that contribute to their overall financial well-being.
Traditionally, defined benefit pension plans and post-retirement benefit offerings have played a critical role in attracting and retaining employees. With rising healthcare costs, longevity risk, and increased market volatility, plan sponsors continue to evaluate strategies to meet the long-term responsibilities associated with these benefits. Given the long-term nature of these obligations, plan sponsors are exposed to investment risk, interest rate risk, and longevity risk, which can create challenges when managing these programs over time. .
MetLife offers several de-risking solutions that can help mitigate these risks, including:
- Pension Risk Transfer
- Retiree Medical Buyout
- Retiree Life Solutions
Over the years, MetLife has worked with companies to help support the financial security of plan participants and their families. MetLife's expertise in managing benefit liabilities helps clients address risk management objectives while supporting the administration and delivery of benefits.
MetLife's long history and experience in managing risk sets us apart. Learn more about how our de-risking solutions can help organizations reduce risk and uncertainty while managing long-term benefit obligations.
Pension Risk Transfer
Solutions that settle a plan or a portion of a plan’s liabilities through an annuity buyout.
Retiree Medical Buyout
Solutions that can eliminate or reduce ongoing operational and financial liabilities associated with retiree medical benefits.
Retiree Life Solutions
Risk Transfer & Funding solutions that help mitigate while supporting the continued provision of retiree life benefits.
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Post-retirement benefit risk transfer solutions help organizations manage and reduce the financial, operational and administrative responsibilities associated with retiree benefit programs, including retiree life insurance, retiree medical benefits and defined benefit pension plans. These strategies can help plan sponsors address long-term liabilities while continuing to support participants and beneficiaries.
Many employers evaluate de-risking strategies due to factors such as rising healthcare costs, increased life expectancy, market volatility and the long-term obligations associated with retirement benefit programs. Risk transfer solutions can help provide greater financial certainty and reduce exposure to these ongoing risks.
Retiree Life Solutions are funding and risk management strategies designed to help organizations mitigate liabilities associated with retiree life insurance benefits while supporting the continued delivery of benefits to eligible retirees and beneficiaries.
A Retiree Medical Buyout is a solution that enables organizations to transfer or reduce the ongoing financial and administrative liabilities related to retiree medical benefits. This approach can help simplify benefit management and improve long-term cost predictability.
Pension Risk Solutions typically involve the purchase of a group annuity contract that transfers some or all pension obligations from a defined benefit plan to an insurance company. This process helps organizations reduce pension-related risks while ensuring participants continue receiving their earned benefits.
Organizations choose MetLife because risk transfer decisions affect more than financial results. They can also have a meaningful impact on the people who depend on those benefits. MetLife combines decades of experience, strong risk management capabilities and tailored solutions to help organizations address complex liabilities while staying focused on participant outcomes.