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Corporate Profile for Dignity Partners Inc., dated May 3, 1996.


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Published date:   May 3, 1996


Company name:     Dignity Partners Inc.


Address:          1700 Montgomery St., Suite 250
                  San Francisco, CA  94111


Telephone No.:    415/394-9467


Chief Executive
 Officer:         Bradley N. Rotter


Chief Financial
 Officer:         John W. Rotter


Investor Relations
 Contact:         Lenoir De Monte
 Business number: 415/394-9467
 Home number:     510/523-0578
 E-mail:          dignity@viatical.com


Public Relations: Macy & Associates
 Contact:         Julie Lehman or Daniel J. Marengo
 Business number: 415/834-2100 (voice), 415/834-2109 (fax)


URL:              www.viatical.com


Trading symbol:   DPNR


Industry:         Viatical Settlement Industry




Company description: Dignity Partners Inc. is a nationwide specialty financial services company based in San Francisco which provides viatical settlements for terminally ill Terminally Ill

When a person is not expected to live more than 12 months.

Notes:
Any gifts given out by the afflicted person at this time may be considered as a dispersion of the estate rather than a gift.
 persons. A viatical settlement is the payment of cash in return for an ownership interest in, and the right to receive the death benefit from, a life insurance policy.

Company Chairman, Bradley Rotter, along with CFO See Chief Financial Officer. , John Rotter, and Alan Perper, president, has brought a unique mix of social awareness and financial savvy to the market. Dignity Partners became the first company in the viatical settlements industry to launch an IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. , with its February 1996, $35 million offering. Underwritten by Oppenheimer & Co. Inc and the Chicago Corp. in February 1996, the stock trades on the Nasdaq exchange (symbol:DPNR DPNR Diesel Particulate NOx Reduction (engine system) ).

In 1995, Dignity Partners was also the first viatical settlement company ever to issue investment grade rated debt secured by life insurance policies. The notes, which provide for borrowings of up to $50 million, were rated "A" by Standard & Poor's Rating Group.

Dignity Partners prides itself on providing the highest level of industry ethics and professional standards for its clients and gauges a successful future in large part from the ability to offer its financial services with beneficence beneficence (b·neˑ·fi·s .

CONTACT: Dignity Partners Inc., San Francisco
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