AUGUST M. HOCHENBERGER JOINS LOCAL METLIFE FIRM

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Free-Press-Release.com) August 6, 2009 -- HAUPPAUGE, NY, August 6, 2009 – North Shore Financial Group, an office of MetLife, is pleased to announce that August M. Hochenberger has joined the firm as a financial services representative.

A resident of Islip, Hochenberger has 33 years experience in financial services, with 15 years as a money market dealer and three years as a fixed income broker. He also has several years banking experience. August Hochenberger holds his Life & Health insurance licenses in NY and has Series 7, 24 and 63 Securities Registrations.

North Shore Financial Group, an office of MetLife, offers a broad array of financial products and services including life, disability income, long-term care insurance and annuities, mutual funds and investment products. Our office is located at 2929 Expressway Drive North, Hauppauge, NY 11749.

MetLife is a subsidiary of MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET), a leading provider of insurance and financial services with operations throughout the United States and the Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific regions. Through its domestic and international subsidiaries and affiliates, MetLife, Inc. reaches more than 70 million customers around the world and MetLife is the largest life insurer in the United States (based on life insurance in-force). 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 & savings products and services to corporations and other institutions. For more information, please visit www.metlife.com.

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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (MLIC), New York, NY 10166. Securities offered by MetLife Securities, Inc. (MSI) a broker-dealer (Member FINRA/SIPC). MLIC and MSI are MetLife, Inc. companies. L0809053497[exp0310][NY]