MetLife, Inc. operates through its affiliates and subsidiaries as a provider of insurance and other financial services to individual and institutional customers. The Company offers life insurance, annuities, automobile and property insurance and mutual funds to individuals, as well as group insurance, reinsurance and retirement and savings products and services to corporations and other institutions. The MetLife companies serve approximately 12 million individuals in the United States and companies and institutions with approximately 33 million employees and members. The Company also has international insurance operations in 12 countries. MetLife is organized into six major business segments: individual, institutional, reinsurance, auto and home, asset management and international. In June 2002, the Company acquired the former government-owned Aseguradora Hidalgo S.A., a life insurer in Mexico.