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Roberta Rafaloff is vice president, Institutional Income Annuities for MetLife. Institutional Income Annuities (IIA) enables defined contribution plan sponsors to provide guaranteed retirement income to their plan participants to help them achieve successful retirement outcomes. The business also offers specialty annuity products including charitable gift annuity reinsurance and lottery annuities. The division is part of Retirement & Income Solutions, the company’s institutional retirement business, which historically has been responsible for over 20 percent of MetLife’s operating earnings. 

As head of the IIA division, Rafaloff, who joined MetLife in 1988, has overall profit center and management responsibility, including product oversight and development, underwriting and pricing, and client management. The division is well-known for its leading market position, innovation and history of firsts, such as being the first to introduce longevity insurance, including an institutional qualifying longevity annuity contract (QLAC), into the marketplace. 

Prior to assuming her current role in 2003, Rafaloff, who has spent her entire career at MetLife, held a variety of sales, client service and management positions in MetLife’s U.S. retirement businesses. 

Rafaloff earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Sociology from Kenyon College in Gambler, Ohio. She is a FINRA Series 6 and 63 registered representative.

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