About MetLife, Inc.

MetLife, Inc. is a leading provider of insurance and financial services with operations throughout the US, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. Through its domestic and international affiliates, MetLife, Inc. reaches more than 70 million customers around the world. The MetLife companies offer life insurance, annuities, auto and home insurance, retail banking and other financial services to individuals, as well as group insurance, reinsurance and retirement and savings products and services to corporations and other institutions.

Affiliated companies include the largest life insurer in the US based on life insurance in force as at December,31 2006, with over 140 years of experience and relationships with more than two-thirds of the Fortune 500 companies. MetLife Inc had over $3.6 trillion (approximately £1.7 trillion) of life assurance inn issue as at December 31, 2007.

MetLife Europe Limited

MetLife is the trading name of MetLife Europe Limited, an affiliate of the global financial organisation MetLife, Inc.

MetLife Europe Limited is an Irish company that operates under the MetLife brand name, and has the ability to do business in any of the EU member states. In the UK, MetLife Europe Limited works solely with Financial Advisers to help deliver retirement and long-term savings solutions.

Services are delivered from MetLife Europe Limited’s head office in Ireland, and from MetLife Europe Limited’s UK offices in London and Salisbury. MetLife Europe Limited is regulated by the Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority and by the Financial Services Authority for its UK conduct of insurance business.

*FORTUNE 500®, April 2006. FORTUNE 500® is a registered trademark of FORTUNE® magazine, a division of Time, Inc.