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1. Life Partners Holdings

1. Life Partners Holdings
Get Quote: LPHI
Financials: Latest Results
Rank: 1 (Previous rank: 7)
CEO: Brian Pardo
Headquarters: Waco, TX
Employees: 56
Industry: Insurance
Revenue: $95.4 million
(four quarters to 12/31/08)
Return to investors: 120.99%
(three years to 12/81/08, annualized rate)

Since 1991, Life Partners has been a leader in the "secondary" life insurance market, which offers individuals 65 and older the opportunity to sell their future life insurance benefits for a cash payout. The beneficiaries gain an immediate infusion of cash, while Life Partners acquires at a discount their future insurance benefits, which it can then sell to investors.
Industry: Insurance
Life Partners Holdings 1 95.4
Universal Insurance Holdings 2 182.7
American Physicians 6 74.7
From the July/August 2009 issue of Fortune Small Business magazine
Source: Zacks
Revenue is for the most recent four quarters ended on or before 12/31/08.

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