With pension funds and other big investors increasingly hungry for yield, life insurer MetLife Inc. on Tuesday launched a major new initiative: an investment-management business that will focus on real estate and private-placement debt. Both types of investments are drawing increased interest from institutional investors for their potential to provide above-average...

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