WACO, Texas, Jan 25, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Life Partners Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq GS: LPHI), parent company of Life Partners, Inc., announced today that it would pay a $0.25 per share quarterly dividend to shareholders of record as of February 5, 2010 on or about March 15, 2010.
The announcement follows the schedule released on July 1, 2009 for dividend payments totaling $1.00 per share throughout the company's 2010 fiscal year.
LPHI Chairman Brian Pardo commented, "Our business is successful because of our commitment to bringing value to our clients. Likewise, we bring value to our shareholders by sharing our success through our consistent history of dividend payments."
Life Partners is the world's oldest and one of the most active companies in the United States engaged in the secondary market for life insurance, commonly called "life settlements". Since its incorporation in 1991, Life Partners has completed over 100,000 transactions for its worldwide client base of approximately 25,000 high net worth individuals and institutions in connection with the purchase of over 6,200 policies totaling over $2.2 billion in face value.
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