Profile: Metropolitan Holdings Limited (METJ.J)

Metropolitan Holdings Limited's business comprises registered life insurance and related financial services companies that transact, in Africa, life, group schemes, employee benefits, health insurance products and administration services, selected banking and other complementary products, as well as medical aid scheme administration, managed care and other related health risk management services, asset management business and collective investment schemes. The Company operates in six businesses: the retail business, the corporate business, international business, asset management business, health business and shareholder capital. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company acquired DirectFin Solutions (DFS), a direct marketing company.