Member Profile

Thomas Toale, Assistant Vice President, U.S. Pensions, MetLife, has worked with qualified pension plans and institutional annuity products for over 35 years. He joined MetLife in 2008 after nearly 20 years with Aon Investment Consulting, where he was Senior Vice President responsible for AIC's annuity placement practice. In that role he worked as a co-fiduciary with plan sponsors and their counsel, actuaries, and investment consultants to implement annuity arrangements for terminating plans as well as partial (FAS 88) settlements for ongoing plans. He also served as consultant to the independent fiduciary responsible for purchasing termination annuities for defined benefit plans sponsored by several large employers. Prior to his career at AON, he was in a similar role with Mercer Investment Consulting. Tom began his career in the Group Pension Department of New England Life (now a unit of MetLife). Tom is a frequent speaker at industry seminars and co-author of several articles and white papers covering a range of topics dealing with pension risk solutions. He received his BA Magna Cum Laude from Boston College and an MBA from Georgia State University. He is a member of the CFA Society of Philadelphia and the CFA Institute.