WEST DES MOINES, Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (NYSE: AEL), a leading underwriter of index and fixed rate annuities, today announced that its Board of Directors has declared an annual cash dividend of $0.22 per share to owners of its common stock. This is a 10% increase from the $0.20 annual dividend declared on November 20, 2014. This marks the seventeenth consecutive year a cash dividend has been declared and the twelfth year in a row that the Company has increased its cash dividend.
The dividend will be payable on December 14, 2015 to shareholders of record as of November 30, 2015. There are approximately 81.7 million shares of common stock outstanding as of today.
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ABOUT AMERICAN EQUITY
American Equity Investment Life Holding Company, through its wholly-owned operating subsidiaries, issues fixed annuity and life insurance products, with a primary emphasis on the sale of fixed index and fixed rate annuities. American Equity Investment Life Holding Company, a New York Stock Exchange Listed company (NYSE: AEL), is headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa. For more information, please visit www.american-equity.com.
