Title
Ensuring Access. Empowering Communities.
Into Action
FINANCIAL INCLUSION
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Steven A. Kandarian
Chairman, President & CEO of MetLife, Inc.
“
The Foundation’s support for financial
inclusion efforts around the world reflects
MetLife’s belief that giving people the tools
to build their future financial security helps
them create better lives for themselves and
their families. This conviction has powered
MetLife’s extraordinary growth over its nearly
150-year history and has made it possible for
us to become one of the world’s leading life
insurers serving approximately 100 million
customers in nearly 50 countries.
”
Financial inclusion means
that households and
businesses have convenient
access to a full suite of
quality, affordable financial
services, delivered by
trustworthy providers with
respect for the customer.
These services promote
better management
of incomes and assets,
ultimately contributing
to greater self-sufficiency
and financial security.
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. Message from A. Dennis White
M
etLife Foundation made significant progress
in 2014 toward achieving the goals of its new
financial inclusion grant-making strategy.
In 2013, the Foundation had committed $200 million
over five years to ensure that more people across the
globe have access to the quality financial services they
need to build better lives. Eighteen months later, or about
one-third of the way through our five-year plan, we are
right on track to meet our ambitious targets. And we
are confident that with steady focus on our mission,
a portfolio that includes some of the most innovative
and respected partners in financial inclusion, and an
energized global MetLife family of associates, the
Foundation will achieve its goals.
As part of our plan, our portfolio has become more
global.
The share of grants for activities outside the
United States was over 40 percent last year, up from
6 percent in 2012. Even as our grant-making’s geographic
distribution diversifies, our thematic focus has sharpened.
Financial inclusion now accounts for 68 percent of total
grant dollars, a 70 percent increase over 2013—and
evidence of the Foundation’s commitment to this mission.
The focus on financial inclusion has also inspired MetLife
associates from around the world to engage more deeply
in their Foundation’s work, another core objective.
This report highlights some of the work the Foundation
is pursuing in each of the three thematic “pillars” of our
financial inclusion strategy—Access & Knowledge, Access
to Services, and Access to Insights. It describes largescale projects such as the Foundation’s partnership with
Sesame Workshop’s multimedia global initiative which
will reach 75 million young people and their caregivers to
help them create effective strategies for spending, saving,
and sharing.
The report also details more targeted grantmaking including the Foundation’s support of sophisticated
behavioral research that seeks to influence people to
undertake positive action to improve their financial lives.
But regardless of scope, every financial inclusion initiative
we pursue is guided by the Foundation’s vision: ensuring
that more of the world’s underserved families have access
to the financial tools and the skills that everyone needs
to manage life’s risks and
seize opportunities.
With almost $70 million
committed to nearly
150 grants directed
towards financial inclusion,
MetLife Foundation is on
track to reach our pledge of
$200 million over five years.
We continue to learn how
to use MetLife Foundation’s
strengths—our financial
resources, to be sure, but also the expertise of MetLife’s
global workforce and our reputation as a global financial
service leader—to ensure that our grant-making achieves
maximum impact.
“
We are confident that
with steady focus on our
mission, a portfolio that
includes some of the most
innovative and respected
partners in financial inclusion, and an energized
global MetLife family of
associates, the Foundation
will achieve its goals.
”
The Financial Inclusion Challenge, our new and exclusive
sponsorship with The Wall Street Journal, is a competition
to recognize achievements in financial inclusion and
raise awareness about the issue. As a complement to the
Challenge, MetLife Foundation and WSJ Custom Studios are
sponsoring a multi-media website, Multipliers of Prosperity,
showcasing the most innovative developments in the field
and highlighting some of the excellent work being done by
MetLife Foundation grantees.
The Foundation is grateful for the opportunity to support
the work of our talented, dedicated partners. We are
grateful for the chance to see the real difference our support
is making in the lives of underserved families.
And finally, we
are grateful for the warm reaction the Foundation’s financial
inclusion strategy has received, both from the general public
and from the global financial-inclusion community.
Your comments and ideas are always welcome.
A. Dennis White
President & CEO, MetLife Foundation
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. Financial Inclusion
The Challenge
Everyone needs financial services. Without a safe place to save
money, it’s difficult to cope with the unexpected or to plan for
the future. Without access to affordable credit, it’s difficult to
get a business idea off the ground or to acquire an asset like a
house or higher education. Without insurance, all your security
can be wiped out by one misfortune.
To have the financial tools you need—tools that you can afford,
that are safe and properly regulated, that you can access
conveniently from institutions that treat you with respect—is to
be financially included.
But we are still far from a world of full
financial inclusion. In developing countries, it is not uncommon
for the formal financial services sector to serve only a small
percentage of the most affluent, leaving 80 percent or more of
the population without even basic financial tools. But financial
inclusion is an issue in the advanced economies, too.
Important
disparities exist, often along ethnic, gender, and socioeconomic
lines, between who is fully financially included and who is not.
There are many complex reasons why full financial inclusion
remains a challenge. Traditional ways of doing business make it
difficult and costly for commercial banks to manage the smallbalance accounts that low-income families need. So banks often
fail to recognize that low-income people could actually be viable
customers—with some creative adaptations to business as usual.
Mission-driven financial institutions, meanwhile, often have a
“high-touch” business model that is very customer-focused—
but difficult to scale up.
The challenge of financial inclusion is to understand what is best
about all the different ways to reach underserved customers.
It’s about understanding what works and building on it.
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Financial Inclusion
The Opportunity
Microfinance proved the concept beginning in the 1970s.
Traditionally excluded populations—low-income or even
severely poor families, small-holder farmers, women,
petty traders, and others—could be viable, even profitable,
customers for financial services.
modern, responsive financial services and know-how,
they could go much farther towards achieving their full
economic potential. They could transform their own lives
and their communities.
Now comes the technology revolution. Banking no longer
has to involve a trip to an expensive brick-and-mortar building.
It could be as close as the cell phone in your pocket.
More and more financial services providers, policymakers,
donors, and others are looking for—and finding—innovative
ways to expand financial inclusion. The financial inclusion
community has made great progress in understanding the
financial needs of low-income households and finding ways to
meet those needs.
But much work remains to be done as well.
Low-income people have always managed their limited
financial resources with creative ingenuity. But with
MetLife Foundation and our partners are proud to be part
of the solution.
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. Profiles in Inclusion
EGYPT
Elham lives in Egypt with her husband and their
five children. She has always worked to help
bring in extra money to support the family.
Her first business, selling ready-to-wear
clothing, was financed by a loan from a
women’s borrowing group run by Lead
Foundation, a member of Women’s World
Banking, a global network of microfinance
institutions supported by MetLife Foundation.
Elham quickly realized that selling clothes
depended too much on the season, and that
she was never going to make sufficient income
that way. She decided to sell housewares
instead, and began by selling out of her home.
Elham Shaaban
El-Sayed
Business: Household goods
Institution: LEAD Foundation
(partner of MetLife
Foundation grantee
Women’s World Banking)
Through her own hard work and a succession
of progressively larger business loans—all of
them diligently repaid—Elham’s business grew
and prospered. Lead Foundation admired
her success and told her she qualified for an
individual loan, in a larger size and with more
flexible terms than the group loan had allowed.
With her small-business individual loan, Elham
expanded her inventory to include higher-ticket
items like washing machines and cookers.
She
also moved her business out of her house and
rented retail space.
The right financial services have made all the
difference in Elham’s business--and for her
family. She plans to expand and renovate her
shop, and she has already helped cover the
expenses for one son’s wedding and the
school fees for her younger children.
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. Profiles in Inclusion
Financial exclusion can look
different from country to
country—or even from person
to person. In the advanced
economies, most people may be
financially included, but minority
groups and lower-income people
often have a hard time accessing
the range of quality financial
In developing countries, financial
access may be a problem
for almost everybody. This is
especially true for women, who
are often limited to rigid “one
size fits all” group loans if they
have access at all. MetLife
Foundation supports innovative
institutions that are working to
find ways to serve more of the
estimated 2 billion currently
excluded people with financial
services—tailored to their needs.
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services they need to get ahead.
Jonathan Moreno
Business: Barber shop
Institution: Accion
U.S.
Network
Jonathan took over operations of Moreno’s Barbershop
in Boston, Massachusetts from his grandfather. He
wanted to upgrade the shop and bring it into the
modern technological age while still maintaining the
quality and integrity of his grandfather’s work.
Jonathan’s grandfather could not make a gift of the
shop, so Jonathan’s succession was not guaranteed.
Fortunately, when the time came for Jonathan’s
grandfather to sell the shop, Jonathan found
Accion US Network, a MetLife Foundation grantee
that specializes in small business loans for underserved
entrepreneurs, including women, minorities, and
immigrants, who might not qualify for traditional
financing. An Accion US Network loan allowed
Jonathan to purchase the barber shop.
The shop now accepts credit cards, offers free wifi to
customers, and has a website.
But thanks to Accion,
it has also stayed in the family.
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. Metlife Foundation’s Financial Inclusion Strategy
MetLife Foundation’s
financial inclusion
work rests on
three strong pillars.
We make grants
with the capacity to
address one or more
of these priorities.
Between the mid-2013
launch of our financial
inclusion strategy and
the end of 2014, the
Foundation has made
nearly 150 grants totaling
almost $70 million.
The following pages
detail just a few.
Access &
Knowledge
Access to
Services
Access to
Insights
PILLAR 1
PILLAR 2
PILLAR 3
Increasing lowincome families’
readiness,
willingness, and
ability to engage
with the financial
sector.
Advancing the
development and
delivery of high
quality financial
products and
services like savings,
insurance, and credit.
Investing in
research and
sharing what we
learn with the
financial inclusion
community and
beyond.
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. Sesame Workshop: Dream Save Do
MetLife Foundation’s grant will support development
and distribution of culturally sensitive financial education
programming to reach underserved families in up to
10 countries by 2018.
VeteransPlus
MetLife Military Veteran’s Network (MVET)
introduced the Foundation to VeteransPlus,
a national not-for-profit serving veterans and
active duty military personnel. VeteransPlus is using their
MetLife Foundation grant to create a digital platform
enabling VeteransPlus counselors to track veterans’
progress towards financial goals like reducing debt,
managing their families’ funds while deployed, and
saving for the future. The digital technology supports
remote delivery of financial counseling, which costs
a fraction of face-to-face sessions. One of the major
challenges to financial inclusion is finding cost-effective
ways to deliver the kind of personalized financial coaching
that, for adults, appears to hold more promise than
classroom-based financial education.
The partnership
gives MetLife Foundation and VeteransPlus an opportunity
both to serve the veteran community and to evaluate
the cost-effectiveness of alternative delivery channels
for financial coaching.
Junior Achievement/MetLife
LifeChanger
Young people make up a disproportionate number of
the world’s working poor and are three times more likely
than adults to be unemployed. With few employment
opportunities available for youth, JA develops young
entrepreneurs, helping them launch and manage
businesses. JA also teaches them personal finance and work
readiness skills.
MetLife Foundation’s financial support
helps Junior Achievement deliver financial education
for these young people, and MetLife employees across
our Europe, Middle East and Africa region are also
active JA volunteers, sharing their time, knowledge,
and experiences with students to help put them on
the path to success.
INDIA
Now with a five-year, $20 million grant from MetLife
Foundation, Sesame Workshop will be launching
a new multimedia global initiative “Dream, Save, Do:
Financial Empowerment for Families.” The program
will help families articulate their aspirations, make
plans, and understand how their everyday choices
affect their goals.
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“Ready,
willing,
and able”
Sesame Workshop pioneered the concept of
educational television for children more than
45 years ago. It has remained one of the most
universally recognized and beloved children’s
brands ever since, making math, reading,
language, and social skills more understandable
and fun for kids all over the world for
generations.
Europe/Middle East/Africa
WORLDWIDE
Access & Knowledge: PILLAR 1
Grants committed:
$32 million
(45 percent of financial
inclusion total)
Trickle Up
Trickle Up takes a holistic approach to
empowering some of India’s poorest
women. MetLife Foundation’s
support helped sponsor Trickle Up’s
“graduation” programs in Odisha and
West Bengal which provide ultra-poor
households with training in an incomegenerating activity, financial assistance
for business, on-going coaching,
and personal financial skills-building
through facilitating access to credit and
savings.
Trickle Up’s integrated package
of services has shown promising results
in breaking the multi-generational cycle
of poverty.
1
PILLAR
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Title
Access to Services: PILLAR 2
“High
quality
products
and
services”
(38 percent of
financial inclusion
total grant-making)
2
PILLAR
BURO
BURO is a respected and successful
microfinance provider in Bangladesh.
Recent research indicated that their largely
rural customers would prefer an easier way to manage
their microfinance loans. Customers would also like
to take advantage of BURO’s savings and remittance
services, but because those services require travel to a
BURO branch office, many BURO customers use only
the neighborhood-based lending groups.
With support from MetLife Foundation, BURO
is adopting a mobile technology platform
that will provide a convenient way to receive
loan disbursements and make repayments,
and eventually support more sophisticated
transactions. By moving towards a cashless (or “cash
lite”) model, BURO will benefit both itself and its
customers. Going forward, customers can enjoy more
personalized services than the “one size fits all” group
loan without having to travel and spend time at a
branch.
BURO reduces risk of robbery or fraud, lowers
the cost of service delivery, and improves efficiency.
If the pilot is successful, BURO expects all its 600+
branches to be mobile-enabled within four years.
Financial inclusion is not just an issue in developing countries.
Even in the advanced economies, many people lack access to
the financial tools they need to help them realize their dreams.
This is especially true in low-income and minority communities.
Either the right financial tools are not available, or the people
don’t know how to find and use them, or it’s difficult to tell the
good from the bad.
Accion U.S. Network is the leading nonprofit provider
of microenterprise credit in the United States. Along with
financial services, Accion U.S.
Network provides business
development training and other technical assistance to help
low-income entrepreneurs succeed. (See related story page 7.)
This partnership helps Accion U.S. Network strengthen
its digital offering so that more entrepreneurs confidently
choose the right type of capital, at the right size, at the
right time to position their businesses for success.
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$26 million
BANGLADESH
Grants Committed:
Accion U.S.
Network
Corporation for Enterprise Development
Savings Innovation Learning Cluster
Americans’ low rate of household savings
poses a serious threat to financial health.
This is especially true for low-income
households who are just as much—if not
more—in need than better-off families of
a cushion against economic shocks and
of ways to pursue their goals With support from
MetLife Foundation, CFED is developing and testing
“next generation” savings models with six member
organizations of CFED’s savings innovation learning
cluster, or SILC. The SILC launched a client-centered design
process to understand clients’ needs, experiences, and attitudes
around savings. They interviewed clients, mapped out each
step clients take in using savings services, and continually
tested concepts and marketing materials.
These multiple design
iterations resulted in refined, targeted pilot programs to help
clients save. Each new savings pilot also included a randomized
test to determine whether applying behavioral economics
principles would improve outcomes. CFED and their SILC
partners will share the results of the pilots, and examine
their potential for replication on a larger scale.
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.
MEXICO
INDIA
EGYPT, INDIA, MEXICO
With MetLife Foundation support, the Grameen
Foundation project will reach at least 40,000 new
households, the majority of them women living on
less than $2.50 per day, with the potential to reach
up to 200,000 people.
The classic microfinance lending methodology, especially
for women, is the group loan. It can be a powerful tool
for introducing low-income entrepreneurs to the financial
system but a group loan may not provide sufficient
capital or flexibility to support meaningful growth of
an individual’s enterprise. Women’s World Banking
is working in three large markets—Egypt, India, and
Mexico—to increase access to more effective financial
products, including individual loans tailored to successful
entrepreneurs’ needs.
With support from MetLife Foundation, WWB
partners in these three markets will strengthen
their operations to ensure delivery of better credit
products to nearly 500,000 clients who in turn will
see their enterprises better positioned for growth.
(See related story page 6.) Each partner institution will
also collect gender-based social and financial performance
indicators. These indicators will measure outreach to
women, product design and diversity, service quality,
customer protection, and staff diversity.
They will also
enable financial institutions to see how women customers
contribute to their financial sustainability.
Grameen Foundation, USA
One of the best-known names
in financial inclusion, Grameen
is working with MetLife
Foundation to greatly expand
outreach among communities in
Uttar Pradesh, one of India’s poorest states. Grameen
is working with Margdarshak, one of the leading
microfinance institutions there, to help Margdarshak
launch a “business correspondent” service. Under the
business correspondent model, agents acting on
the financial institution’s behalf fan out among
poor and underserved communities.
These agents
(equipped with mobile technology) go door to
door, enrolling and serving customers. The model
permits both banks and microfinance institutions
to serve this clientele without the expense and
inefficiencies of adding brick-and-mortar branches,
while the customer gets the most personalized
“doorstep banking” service possible.
Women’s World Banking
ProMujer
ProMujer’s “Building a Pathway for
the Economic Empowerment of
Women in Latin America” will build upon the work they
have been doing with low-income women throughout
the region for nearly 25 years. With MetLife Foundation
support, ProMujer will help women transition from
group loans to individual borrowing.
ProMujer will
support their clients’ growth into individual loans
through a systematic approach that positions
them for greater economic success while also
ensuring clients’ access to other services such
as health clinics, business training services,
and a social space where they find a support
amongst a network of peers and Pro Mujer staff.
2
PILLAR
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. $16 million
GLOBAL
(17 percent of financial
inclusion total)
3
PILLAR
The Bankable Frontier Associates (BFA) Optimizing
Performance Through Improved cross(X)-sell (OPTIX) project
works with socially-driven financial service providers who
can provide the full range of services low-income people
need, not just credit. These institutions seek to meet their
clients’ complete financial needs, and they also recognize
that cross-selling financial products improves their own
institutional sustainability.
The OPTIX partners (Cooperative Acreimex in Mexico;
Banco WWB in Colombia; SAJIDA Foundation in
Bangladesh; and Capital Aid Fund for Employment of
the Poor [CEP] in Vietnam) will share learning with
each other and with the industry as they work to
serve their combined 700,000 low-income clients with
more and better financial services. One of the project’s
strengths is the market diversity. The four OPTIX countries
contain significant differences in culture, financial services
penetration, and regulatory policies, providing multiple
perspectives that will benefit both the individual OPTIX
partners and the broader financial inclusion community.
The Financial Inclusion Challenge
Managed by The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal, the United States’
largest newspaper by circulation, has been
a trusted source of financial news since
1889.
MetLife Foundation has launched a
global project with the Journal to recognize
achievement in financial inclusion and raise awareness
about the issue. MetLife Foundation is the exclusive
sponsor of The Financial Inclusion Challenge, providing
cash grants to institutions judged by a panel of
independent experts to be leaders in financial
inclusion innovation.
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Grants committed:
Bankable Frontiers Associates:
OPTIX (Optimizing Performance
Through Improved Cross Sell)
Center for Financial Service
Innovations Financial Health Index
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“Investing
in research
and
sharing
what we
learn”
BANGLADESH, VIETNAM, MEXICO, COLOMBIA
Access to Insights: PILLAR 3
New School for Social Research
Ninety percent of lenders use FICO scores to
help them make credit decisions and, like any
near-universal instrument, the FICO model
has both its strengths and its drawbacks. Credit history is
important, but it does not tell the whole story of a person’s
financial health.
With support from MetLife Foundation,
CSFI is working to create a broader scoring model
that creates a more complete picture of a customer’s
insurance, credit and savings needs. CFSI is working on
this alternative model in collaboration with leading lenders
to ensure its practicality and eventual uptake.
Rotating Savings and Credit Associations, or ROSCAs,
are informal groups of friends and neighbors who come
together to pool their savings. On a regular rotating basis,
each member of the ROSCA gets a turn at winning the
group’s collective savings to fund his or her small business,
or for some other purpose.
Each member continues to
make regular contributions until all have eventually received
the collected funds. ROSCAs are widespread throughout
the developing world—but ROSCAs exist in the advanced
economies, too, especially among recent immigrants.
With support from MetLife Foundation, researchers
from the New School are conducting a study of
ROSCAs and other informal financial alternatives
among low-income people in New York and California.
Findings from this research will give the financial inclusion
community a more accurate picture of what low-income
people truly value in financial services, and perhaps suggest
ways to improve product design by capturing some of the
advantages (convenience, flexibility, trust) of preferred
informal alternatives.
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. CIVIC & CULTURAL, HEALTH & WELL-BEING
Financial inclusion is MetLife Foundation’s
global focus, both for the scale of the
global need and for financial inclusion’s
close fit with MetLife Foundation’s
unique strengths. But we are also
proud to sponsor initiatives in
other philanthropic areas. We fund
non-financial inclusion projects that
respond to local needs and that bring
significant, tangible benefit to local
communities. Even as we increasingly
concentrate our grant-making on
financial inclusion, we also expect to
continue targeted support for local
initiatives throughout the life of our
five-year strategic plan.
Among the Foundation’s areas of support:
Youth Education
$1.5 million
Community
Development
$2.1 million
Distribution of Financial Inclusion
vs non-Financial Inclusion
FI
OTHER
60%
40%
2013
Total Giving*:
$42.5MM
OTHER
32%
Arts & Culture
FI
68%
$3.1million
Alzheimer’s- and
Aging-Related Grants
$1.9 million
2014
Total Giving*:
$41.4MM
* Cash only; includes grants for financial inclusion,
civic and cultural, employee-related and other
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.
Associate Involvement
KaBOOM! is the national non-profit dedicated to
bringing balanced and active play into the daily lives of
all kids, particularly those growing up in poverty in North
America. MetLife Foundation has been a partner
of KaBOOM! since 2008, providing more than $3
million in support for playground builds. MetLife
associates have participated in more than twenty-five
playground builds across the United States and in Mexico,
contributing more than 15,000 volunteer hours.
Girl Scouts of the USA and the World
Association of Girl Guides and Girl
Scouts (WAGGGS) - The new Girl
Scouts Global Financial Empowerment Initiative funded
by MetLife Foundation centers on empowering girls
by increasing their financial capability. Girls in seven
countries around the world learn about budgeting,
saving, bank loans, credit cards, and credit scores to
introduce them to concepts that will allow them to make
smarter financial decisions in the future.
The Girls Scouts
also partner with MetLife’s Women’s Business Network
to provide girls the opportunity to interact with MetLife
leadership. They learn first-hand about the workplace
and build job readiness and skills while forging new
friendships and having fun.
MetLife recognizes the
importance of volunteers and the
impact they have on improving
the lives of others. MetLife
associates around the world
donate their time and talents to
help youth develop literacy skills,
to teach students the importance
of financial responsibility, and
to mentor the next generation
of leaders through a variety of
outreach initiatives.
For over 100
years, volunteerism has been a
hallmark of MetLife’s legacy.
In 2014, more than
7,300 employees spent
approximately 62,000
hours volunteering
their time in 175 events
globally.
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. Associate Involvement
Habitat for Humanity
International’s mission is
creating safe, affordable housing
for low-income families around
the world. MetLife Foundation
has been proud to support
Habitat for the past two
decades, and MetLife
volunteers have participated
in more than a hundred
builds and home repairs
across the globe. Locations
include Brazil, Bangladesh,
Colombia, India, Korea, Mexico,
United Kingdom and the
United States.
. 40% 20
%
Share of world’s population
living on $2 per day or less
?
Percentage of low-income
(< $2/day) people with
access to even basic
financial services
What do you do when
you can’t keep your
savings in the bank?
Put spare cash towards
more livestock . .. but
you can’t withdraw
just a portion of a cow
FINANCIAL INCLUSION
Towards
Hide it in your
mattress...
and hope it
doesn’t get stolen
?
What do you do when you can’t get a
start-up loan for your great business idea?
Ask family and friends...
and hope they have
some to spare
?
Why not just go to the bank?
Banks’ products are often not designed
for low-income customers’ needs.
Banks can also be far away, unfamiliar,
and intimidating.
Access & Knowledge
Access to
Increasing low-income families’
readiness, willingness, and ability
to engage with the financial sector
Advancing the dev
delivery of high qu
products and serv
insurance, and cre
PILLAR 1
Building Financial Capability for
Young People • Counseling and
Coaching for Adults
PILLAR 2
Mobile Phone Ban
and-Pop Shops •
• Behavioral Econ
. Stability
Income
Assets
Thriving businesses
Secure old age
the Vision
Affordable products
Respectful service
Children in school
Inclusion
Healthy Families
velopment and
uality financial
vices like savings,
edit
nking • MomDoorstep Banking
nomics
Access to Insights
PILLAR 3
Investing in research and sharing
what we learn with the financial
inclusion community and beyond
Research • Policy • Public
Awareness
More from life
Growing economies
Futures
choice
happiness
Services
Safe housing
Convenience
Weddings
Security
Financial inclusion means that households
and businesses have convenient access
to all the financial tools they need.
MetLife Foundation’s financial inclusion
strategy rests on three strong pillars.
We support the people and institutions
striving to make financial inclusion a reality.
. 2014 at a Glance
62K
Volunteer Hours
216
Grantees*
$47MM
MetLife and MetLife Foundation Total Giving
23
Countries Represented
*MetLife Foundation funds an additional 816 volunteer and matching gift grantees
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. Financial Inclusion
2014 Paid
Access & Knowledge
American India Foundation
Concern WorldWide
Corporation for Enterprise Development
Credit Builders Alliance
Eagle Academy Foundation
Food Bank for New York City
Girl Scouts of the USA
Give2Asia working with CFFPD
Homeowners Preservation Foundation
International Rescue Committee
JA Worldwide
Junior Achievement (Various)
MIDE via Resource Foundation
National Human Services Assembly
National Urban League
Sesame Workshop
TechnoServe
Union of Citizens Bureau Poland via King
Baudouin Foundation
United Way of Cass-Clay
Veterans Plus
25,750
250,000
135,000
150,000
12,000
50,000
800,044
260,000
250,000
352,000
1,557,100
270,220
47,983
250,000
425,000
4,000,000
250,000
25,000
Access & Knowledge Total
9,357,797
2,700
245,000
Access to Services
Accion International
250,000
Accion, The US Network
650,000
Achieving the Dream
250,000
Bankable Frontiers Associates via Rockefeller
2,833,332
Philanthropy Advisors
Behavioral Ideas Lab
790,000
BURO via Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
370,800
Duke University
250,000
Enclude via Tides Foundation
250,000
Fair Finance via Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
500,000
Foundation for the Development Of Polish Agriculture
26,500
via King Baudouin Foundation
Grameen Foundation
KIVA Microfunds
MDRC
National Federation of Community Development
Credit Unions
Opportunity International
Pro Mujer
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Svasti via Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
United Nations Capital Development Fund
Women’s World Banking
Worldwide Foundation for Credit Unions
Access to Services Total
541,000
1,250,000
730,000
790,000
900,000
775,000
147,550
237,000
250,000
1,714,555
175,000
13,680,737
Access & Knowledge
$9,357,797
Access to Services
Access to Insights
Access India via Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
51,500
Accion International
100,000
Asset Funders Network via Philanthropy New York
116,000
Cities for Financial Empowerment (CFE) Fund
110,000
D2D Fund
250,000
Encore.org
455,000
Financial Innovations Center
1,635,000
Give2Asia
54,500
HelpAge USA
248,800
Irrational Labs Corp
250,000
Japan NPO Center via Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
21,000
King Baudouin Foundation
42,566
MDRC
350,000
Microinsurance Network via King Baudouin Foundation
13,125
MicroSave India via Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
68,000
New School
51,728
ProDesarollo via Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
100,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
25,000
Sanabel via Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
77,250
Taproot Foundation
40,000
Trickle Up
100,000
University of Texas at Austin
50,000
Access to Insights Total
MetLife
Financial
Foundation
Overview
Grants
Disbursed
During 2014
$13,680,737
Access to Insights
$4,209,469
Financial Inclusion Total
$27,248,003
4,209,469
All figures in US dollars.
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Alzheimer’s Association
American Federation for Aging Research
Awards for Medical Reaserch working with
American Federation for Aging Research
Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
National Alliance for Caregiving
New York Blood Center
Health Total
340,000
220,000
800,000
200,000
50,000
250,000
1,860,000
Civic Engagement
All Stars Project
250,000
ARC of the United States
100,000
CASA of Morris & Sussex Counties
25,000
Foundation Center
7,500
Human Rights Campaign
25,000
Independent Sector
15,000
Lawyers Alliance for New York
10,000
Midland Adult Services
10,000
New York City Partnership Foundation
70,000
PFLAG 40,000
Philanthropy New York
50,000
Regional Plan Association
25,000
Rosie’s Place
10,000
SAGE 50,000
Somerset County Business Partnership
10,000
ULI Foundation
2,500
United Cerebral Palsy
25,000
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Belk College
100,000
University of Scranton
10,000
Victory Institute
10,000
Civic Engagement Total
845,000
Veterans
American Corporate Partners
Community Hope
Home Base
Local Initiatives Support Corp
Purple Heart Hall of Honor
The Field for Basetrack
50,000
15,000
50,000
150,000
2,500
60,000
US Chamber of Commerce
USO of Metropolitan NY
100,000
5,000
Veterans Total
432,500
Community Development
American Red Cross
AmeriCares Foundation
Chicago Community Loan Fund
Community Loan Fund of New Jersey
Farm Foundation
Food Bank Initiative
Generations United
Housing and Community Development Network of NJ
Interfaith Food Pantry
Living Cities
Local Initiatives Support Corporation
Massachusetts Association of CDCs
Neighborhood Housing Services of New York City
Partners for Livable Communities
Ronald McDonald House of Tampa Bay
Trust for Public Land
Un TECHO/Valparaiso Chile Relief
United Neighborhood Houses
Community Development Total
250,000
100,000
25,000
25,000
5,000
290,000
225,000
10,000
10,000
350,000
385,000
10,000
50,000
15,000
5,000
170,000
150,000
15,000
Health Total
$1,860,000
Civic Engagement Total
$845,000
Veterans Total
$432,500
2,090,000
Community
Development Total
Arts & Culture
American Museum of Natural History
Americas Society
Arts Council of the Morris Area
Asia Society
Ballet Hispanico of New York
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Carnegie Hall
Catalog for Giving of NYC
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Chicago Children’s Museum
Children’s Museum Jordan
Dayton Art Institute
MetLife
Financial
Foundation
Overview
Grants
Disbursed
During 2014
200,000
75,000
10,000
425,000
125,000
15,000
50,000
25,000
50,000
10,000
35,000
25,000
20,000
15,000
$2,090,000
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. Discovery Place
El Museo del Barrio
Foundation for the Carolinas
Hartford Symphony Orchestra
High Line
Highbridge Voices
Japan Society
Levin Museum of the New South
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Los Angeles Philharmonic
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Marbles Kids Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Morris Museum
Munson Williams Proctor Institute
Museum of Science, Boston
National Museum of Women in the Arts
New York Botanical Garden
New York City Ballet
New York City Center
New York Hall of Science
New York Philharmonic
New York Public Library
New York Public Radio
North Carolina Symphony Society
Paper Mill Playhouse
Providence Children’s Musem
Public Theater
Repertorio Espanol
South Street Theater
St. Louis Art Museum
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
State Theatre Regional Arts Center at New Brunswick
Studio Museum in Harlem
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
United Arts Council of Raleigh and Wake County
Arts & Culture Total
25,000
50,000
25,000
25,000
50,000
5,000
75,000
25,000
50,000
25,000
15,000
10,000
130,000
10,000
10,000
25,000
5,000
600,000
25,000
125,000
25,000
325,000
25,000
50,000
25,000
10,000
25,000
35,000
100,000
5,000
10,000
20,000
15,000
15,000
25,000
2,500
3,102,500
Youth/Education
Actuarial Foundation
American Indian College Fund
Asia Society
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Boys & Girls Clubs of America
Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford
Boys & Girls Clubs of Tampa Bay
Greater Johnstown YMCA
Harlem Educational Activities Fund
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
Matching Gifts for Higher Education
National FFA Foundation
New Leaders
North Carolina Business Leaders for Education
Opportunity Network
Police Athletic League
Read Alliance
Rhode Island Mentoring Partnership
Scholarships for Employees’ Children
United Negro College Fund
YMCA of Greater New York
YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
Youth/Education Total
10,000
15,000
250,000
500,000
150,000
20,000
5,000
12,500
10,000
30,000
737,115
21,250
100,000
10,000
25,000
50,000
7,500
15,000
586,963
50,000
200,000
15,000
2,820,328
Associate Involvement
Employee Volunteer Programs
575,625
Habitat for Humanity International
394,180
KaBOOM! 839,072
Local United Ways
750,000
Un TECHO
110,826
Associate Involvement Total
Grand Total
MetLife
Foundation
Grants
Disbursed
During 2014
Arts & Culture Total
$3,102,500
Youth/Education Total
$2,820,328
Associate
Involvement Total
$2,669,703
MetLife Foundation
Non-FI Giving Total
$13,820,031
Foundation Giving
$41,068,034
2,669,703
41,068,034
MetLife Giving*
$5,990,292
Giving Total
$47,058,326
* Figure reflects sum of grants made during 2014 by MetLife corporate and regional/country offices.
It is included in this report to provide a fuller picture of philanthropic contributions of MetLife
global family of companies. MetLife Foundation is a separate legal entity.
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Financial
Overview
METLIFE FOUNDATION
STATEMENTS OF FINANCIAL POSITION AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2014 AND 2013
ASSETS
NOTES
2014
2013
$ 168,090,542
$ 151,164,794
16,697,762
14,496,291
4,085,065
4,012,690
188,873,369
169,673,775
1,154,376
9,315,562
2,930
3,472
5,629,607
-
$ 195,660,282
$ 178,992,809
$ 1,455,693
$ 2,848,511
Amounts payable for investments acquired
-
1,855,269
Accrued expenses and other payables
376,500
317,425
Federal excise tax payable
490,192
362,429
Total liabilities
2,322,385
5,383,634
Net assets – unrestricted
193,337,897
173,609,175
$ 195,660,282
$ 178,992,809
Investments:
Investments, at fair value:
Equity investments
Short-term investments
Program-related investments
1
Total investments
Cash and cash equivalents
1
Due and accrued investment income
Amounts receivable for investments sold
1
TOTAL ASSETS
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
Cash overdraft
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
1
See notes to financial statements
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. Financial
Overview
STATEMENTS OF ACTIVITIES AND CHANGES IN NET ASSETS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2014 AND 2013
REVENUE
NOTES
2014
2013
$ 4,109,505
$ 3,461,763
1
13,512,871
11,820,558
3
44,000,000
45,000,000
$ 61,622,376
$ 60,282,321
41,068,034
42,488,850
Investment income:
Dividends and interest
Change in fair value of investments
Contributions from MetLife
Total revenue
GRANTS AND EXPENSES
Grants paid
General expenses
4
472,557
651,549
Federal excise tax
5
353,063
314,882
Total grants and expenses
41,893,654
43,455,281
CHANGE IN NET ASSETS
19,728,722
16,827,040
173,609,175
156,782,135
$ 193,337,897
$ 173,609,175
Net assets – beginning of year
NET ASSETS – end of year
See notes to financial statements
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. STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
FOR THE YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2014 AND 2013
CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:
2014
$ 19,728,722
Change in net assets
2013
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Overview
$ 16,827,040
Adjustments to reconcile change in net assets to net cash (used in)
provided by operating activities:
Change in fair value of investments
(13,512,871)
(11,820,558)
Accretion of discount/amortization of premiums on investments
(15,828)
(12,015)
Change in due and accrued investment income
542
387
Change in cash overdraft
(1,392,819)
1,922,922
Change in accrued expenses and other payables
59,075
(130,075)
Change in federal excise tax payable/recoverable
127,763
197,882
Net cash provided by operating activities
$ 4,994,584
$ 6,985,583
Proceeds from sale of investments
71,843,276
72,114,286
Purchase of investments
(84,999,046)
(72,106,240)
Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities
(13,155,770)
8,046
NET CHANGE IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS
(8,161,186)
6,993,629
Cash and cash equivalents – beginning of year
9,315,562
2,321,933
$ 1,154,376
$ 9,315,562
$ 225,300
$ 117,000
CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS – end of year
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information –
Federal excise taxes paid
See notes to financial statements
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. INDEPENDENT AUDITORS’ REPORT
To the Board of Directors of MetLife Foundation:
We have audited the accompanying financial statements of MetLife
Foundation (the “Foundation”), which comprise the statements
of financial position as of December 31, 2014 and 2013, and the
related statements of activities and changes in net assets and cash
flows for the years then ended, and the related notes to the financial
statements.
Management’s Responsibility for the Financial Statements
Management is responsible for the preparation and fair presentation
of these financial statements in accordance with accounting
principles generally accepted in the United States of America; this
includes the design, implementation, and maintenance of internal
control relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of financial
statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to
fraud or error.
Auditors’ Responsibility
Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial
statements based on our audits. We conducted our audits in
accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United
States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform
the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial
statements are free from material misstatement.
An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence
about the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The
METLIFE FOUNDATION
NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
AS OF DECEMBER 31, 2014 AND 2013 AND FOR THE YEARS
ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2014 AND 2013
The MetLife Foundation (the “Foundation”) was formed for the purpose
of supporting various philanthropic organizations and activities,
principally in the United States.
During 2013, the Foundation began
an initiative of devoting resources to advancing financial inclusion,
helping to build a secure future for individuals and communities
around the world.
1. ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
The Foundation’s financial statements have been prepared
in accordance with accounting principles generally
accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) which
recognize income when earned and expenses when
incurred.
Investments at Fair Value – The Foundation’s equity investments are
principally comprised of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Short-term
investments include investments with remaining maturities of one
year or less, but greater than three months, at the time of acquisition.
procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgment, including
the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial
statements, whether due to fraud or error.
In making those risk
assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to
the Foundation’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial
statements in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate
in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of
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Overview
expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Foundation’s
internal control. Accordingly, we express no such opinion. An audit
also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies
used and the reasonableness of significant accounting estimates
made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation
of the financial statements.
We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and
appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.
Opinion
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present
fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Foundation
as of December 31, 2014 and 2013, and the changes in its net
assets and its cash flows for the years then ended in accordance
with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of
America.
February 13, 2015
Related holdings gains and losses are reported in investment income.
The Foundation is not exposed to any significant concentration of
credit risk in its investment portfolio.
Program-Related Investments - Such investments are authorized by
the Board of Directors and represent loans to or equity investments
in qualified charitable organizations or investments for appropriate
charitable purposes as set forth in the Internal Revenue Code and
regulations thereunder, and are carried at outstanding indebtedness
or cost.
An allowance for possible losses is established when the
Foundation does not expect repayment in full on any programrelated loan and when such uncollectible amount can be reasonably
estimated. As of December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013,
this allowance was zero. In addition, the income generated by the
program-related loans is generally dependent upon the financial ability
of the borrowers to keep current on their obligations.
For disclosure
purposes, a reasonable estimate of fair value was not made since the
difference between fair value and the outstanding indebtedness or
cost would not be significant. Maturities of the loan investments range
from 2021 through 2022.
Cash Equivalents and Cash Overdraft - Cash equivalents are highly
liquid investments purchased with an original or remaining maturity
of three months or less at the date of purchase and are carried at
fair value. The Foundation generally invests funds required for cash
disbursements in cash equivalents and transfers such funds to its
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operating bank account when checks are presented for payment.
The cash overdrafts at December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013
represent grant disbursements that cleared the operating bank
account in 2015 and 2014, respectively.
an affiliate at cost will significantly overstate or understate the value of
that service, the recipient NFP may elect to recognize that service at
its fair value. The Foundation is currently evaluating the impact of this
guidance on its’ financial statements.
Amounts Receivable for Investments Sold – Security transactions are
recorded on the trade date. A receivable is recognized for securities
sold but not yet settled as of December 31, 2014.
2. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS
The Foundation has elected to measure its equity investments, shortterm investments and cash equivalents at fair value with related
holdings gains and losses reported in investment income.
Contributions - All contributions received to date by the Foundation
have been unrestricted and, therefore, all of its net assets are similarly
unrestricted.
All contributions received during 2014 and 2013 have
been from MetLife, Inc. and subsidiaries (“MetLife”).
Grants - Such transactions are authorized by the Board of Directors.
Conditional grants authorized for payment in future years are subject
to further review and approval by the Foundation.
Use of Estimates - The preparation of the financial statements in
conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and
assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities,
and changes therein and the disclosure of contingent assets and
liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported
amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.
Actual results could differ from these estimates. Since the obligation
to make payment of conditional multi-year grants and program-related
loans is dependent upon each grantee/borrower’s satisfaction of the
applicable conditions, the amount of conditional multi-year grants and
program-related loans reported as commitments is based upon the
expected or estimated fulfillment of such conditions.
Future Adoption of New Accounting Pronouncements
In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”)
issued a comprehensive new revenue recognition standard
(Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 201409, Revenue from
Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)), effective retrospectively for
fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016 and interim periods
within those years.
Early adoption of this standard is not permitted. The
new guidance will supersede nearly all existing revenue recognition
guidance under GAAP; however, it will not impact the accounting for
insurance contracts, leases, financial instruments and guarantees.
For those contracts that are impacted by the new guidance, the
guidance will require an entity to recognize revenue upon the transfer
of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects
the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled to, in
exchange for those goods or services. The Foundation is currently
evaluating the impact of this guidance on its’ financial statements.
In April 2013, the FASB issued new guidance (ASU 201306, Notfor-Profit Entities (Topic 958): Services Received from Personnel of
an Affiliate (a consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force)
effective prospectively for fiscal years beginning after June 15, 2014
and interim periods thereafter.
The new guidance requires a recipient
not-for-profit (“NFP”) entity to recognize all services received from
personnel of an affiliate that directly benefit the NFP and for which the
affiliate does not charge the NFP. Those services should be measured
at the cost recognized by the affiliate for the personnel providing those
services. However, if measuring a service received from personnel of
Financial
Overview
When developing estimated fair values, the Foundation considers
three broad valuation techniques: (i) the market approach, (ii) the
income approach, and (iii) the cost approach.
The Foundation
determines the most appropriate valuation technique to use, given
what is being measured and the availability of sufficient inputs, giving
priority to observable inputs. The Foundation categorizes its assets
and liabilities measured at estimated fair value into a three-level
hierarchy, based on the significant input with the lowest level in its
valuation. The input levels are as follows:
Level 1
Unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.
The Foundation defines active
markets based on average trading volume for equity
securities. The size of the bid/ask spread is used as an
indicator of market activity for fixed maturity securities.
Level 2
Quoted prices in markets that are not active or inputs
that are observable either directly or indirectly. These
inputs can include quoted prices for similar assets or
liabilities other than quoted prices in Level 1, quoted
prices in markets that are not active, or other significant
inputs that are observable or can be derived principally
from or corroborated by observable market data for
substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.
Level 3
Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no
market activity and are significant to the determination of estimated fair value of the assets or liabilities.
Unobservable inputs reflect the reporting entity’s own
assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability.
Financial markets are susceptible to severe events evidenced by rapid depreciation in asset values accompanied by a reduction in asset
liquidity.
The Foundation’s ability to sell securities, or the price ultimately realized for these securities, depends upon the demand and liquidity in the market and increases the use of judgment in determining
the estimated fair value of certain securities.
Considerable judgment is often required in interpreting market data to
develop estimates of fair value, and the use of different assumptions
or valuation methodologies may have a material effect on the estimated fair value amounts.
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. Recurring Fair Value Measurements
The assets and liabilities measured at estimated fair value on a recurring basis and their corresponding placement in the fair value hierarchy
presented below.
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Total Estimated Fair Value
$ 67,214,766
$ 100,860,776
$ 15,000
$ 168,090,542
16,697,762
-
16,697,762
399,998
199,993
-
599,991
$ 67,614,764
$ 117,758,531
$ 15,000
$ 185,388,295
$ 151,149,794
$-
$ 15,000
$ 151,164,794
12,196,345
2,299,946
-
9,199,864
-
9,199,864
$ 163,346,139
$ 11,499,810
$ 15,000
Financial
Overview
$ 174,860,949
December 31, 2014:
Equity investments
Short-term investments
Cash equivalents
Total
December 31, 2013:
Equity investments
Short-term investments
Cash equivalents
Total
14,496,291
The following describes the valuation methodologies used to measure assets and liabilities at fair value. The description includes the valuation
techniques and key inputs for each category of assets or liabilities that are classified within Level 2 and Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy.
Equity Investments, Short-term Investments and Cash Equivalents
When available, the estimated fair value of these financial instruments is based on quoted prices in active markets that are readily and regularly
obtainable. Generally, these are the most liquid of the Company’s securities holdings and valuation of these securities does not involve management’s judgment.
When quoted prices in active markets are not available, the determination of estimated fair value is based on market standard valuation methodologies, giving priority to observable inputs. The significant inputs to the market standard valuation methodologies for certain types of securities
with reasonable levels of price transparency are inputs that are observable in the market or can be derived principally from, or corroborated by,
observable market data.
When observable inputs are not available, the market standard valuation methodologies rely on inputs that are significant to the estimated fair value that are not observable in the market or cannot be derived principally from, or corroborated by, observable market data. These unobservable inputs can be based in large part on management’s judgment or estimation and cannot be supported by reference
to market activity. Even though these inputs are unobservable, management believes they are consistent with what other market participants
would use when pricing such securities and are considered appropriate given the circumstances.
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All instruments have valuations using independent pricing sources, matrix pricing, discount cash flow methodologies or other similar techniques
that use market observable and/or unobservable inputs.
Level 2
Observable
Level 3
Unobservable
Valuation Techniques: Principally valued using
the market approach. Key Inputs: Valuations are
based primarily on matrix pricing, discounted cash
flow methodologies, as well as:
Valuation Techniques: Principally valued using
the market and income approaches. Key Inputs:
Valuations are based primarily on discounted
cash flow methodologies, as well as:
• observable inputs, including quoted prices in
markets that are not considered active
Instrument:
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Overview
• quoted prices for identical or similar securities
that are less liquid and based on lower levels
of trading activity than securities classified in
Level 2
• independent non-binding broker quotations,
credit ratings, and issuances structures
Equity Investments
Short-term Investments and Cash Equivalents
Valuation Techniques: Principally valued using
the market approach. Key Inputs: Valuations are
based primarily on quoted prices in markets that
are not active, as well as:
• benchmark U.S.
Treasury yield or other yields
• the spread off the U.S. Treasury yield curve for
the identical security
• issuer ratings
• broker-dealer quotes
• issuer spreads
• reported trades of similar securities, including
those that are actively traded, and those within
the same sub-sector or with a similar maturity or
credit rating
Valuation Techniques: Principally valued using
the market approach. Key Inputs: Valuations are
based primarily on quoted prices
• credit spreads
• quoted prices for identical or similar securities
that are less liquid and based on lower levels
of trading activity than securities classified in
Level 2
• independent non-binding broker quotations
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Transfers between Levels
Overall, transfers between levels occur when there are changes in the observability of inputs and market activity. Transfers into or out of any level
are assumed to occur at the beginning of the period.
Financial
Overview
For assets measured at estimated fair value and still held at December 31, 2014, transfers between Levels 1 and 2 were $80 million. There were
no transfers into or out of Level 3 during the year ended
December 31, 2014. There were no transfers amongst the three categories of the fair value hierarchy during the year ended December 31, 2013.
The following tables summarize the change of all assets measured at estimated fair value on a recurring basis using significant unobservable
inputs (Level 3).
There were no unrealized or realized gains (losses) on Level 3 assets during the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013.
Investment Income
(1)
Balance,
January 1
Purchases
Balance,
December 31
Sales
December 31, 2014:
Equity investments
$ 15,000
$-
$-
$-
$ 15,000
-
-
-
-
-
Short-term investments
Balance,
January 1
Investment Income
(1)
Purchases
Balance,
December 31
Sales
December 31, 2013:
Equity investments
Short-term investments
$ 15,000
$-
$-
$-
$ 15,000
1,000,000
718
-
(1,000,718)
-
(1) Amortization of premium/accretion of discount is included within investment income. Interest and dividend accruals, as well as cash interest
coupons and dividends received, are excluded from the rollforward.
3. CONTRIBUTIONS
In 2014 and 2013, MetLife contributed cash of $44,000,000 and $45,000,000, respectively, to the Foundation.
4.
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
The Foundation is supported by MetLife. MetLife also provides the Foundation with management and administrative services. However, the
Statements of Activities and Changes in Net Assets do not include such costs since they are not significant.
5.
FEDERAL TAXES
The Foundation is exempt from Federal income taxes; however, as a private foundation, it is subject to Federal excise taxes on its net taxable
investment income and realized capital gains. The rate for current excise taxes was 2% in 2014 and 2013. The rate for deferred excise taxes was
2% in 2014 and 2013.
There were no uncertain tax positions taken by the Foundation as of December 31, 2014.
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. 6. COMMITMENTS
As of December 31, 2014, the Board of Directors had authorized grants and program-related investments for future years as follows:
Conditional Grants
Program-Related Investments
2015
$ 10,630,052
$ 3,000,000
2016
9,374,331
2017
Financial
Overview
5,100,000
$ 25,104,383
$ 3,000,000
These commitments are based on conditions that must be met and are therefore not included as a liability on the Statements of Financial
Position.
As of December 31, 2014, none of the conditional grants required further review and approval by the Board of Directors prior to payment.
7. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
The Foundation has evaluated all subsequent transactions and events after the statement of financial position date and through February 13,
2015, which is the date these financial statements were available to be issued. There are no transactions or events requiring disclosure.
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.
METLIFE FOUNDATION BOARD AND STAFF
LOOKING FORWARD
Board of Directors
Frans Hijkoop
Executive Vice President & Chief HR Officer
Michel Khalaf
At the end of 2014, MetLife Foundation was
about one-third of the way through our five-year
strategic plan. We’ve built a small but dedicated
team—one that is backed by a global family
of MetLife associates numbering in the tens of
thousands who are increasingly energized by the
Foundation’s mission. After early days of making
some smaller experimental grants, we’re now
beginning to make more ambitious, multi-year
commitments to projects with break-through
potential. We have partnered with some of the
most respected names in financial inclusion,
and we’re excited to indentify next-generation
leaders.
President, EMEA
MetLife Foundation is truly grateful for the
opportunity in front of us to make a lasting
contribution to the financial health of millions
of people.
We look forward to sharing what we
learn along the way.
Staff
April Hawkins
Mavel Jones
Rick Love
Charlie Pettigrew
Evelyn Stark
Junko Tashiro
Krishna Thacker
Maria Morris
Executive Vice President, Global Employee Benefits
John Rosenthal
Senior Managing Director, Global Portfolio Management
Oscar Schmidt
Executive Vice President, Latin America
Eric Steigerwalt
Executive Vice President, U.S. Retail
Chris Townsend
President, Asia
Dennis White
President & CEO, MetLife Foundation
Mike Zarcone
Chairman, MetLife Foundation,
& Executive Vice President, Corporate Affairs
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. Ensuring Access. Empowering Communities.
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