Global pre-need provider, Assurant, traded at a yearly high yesterday of $106 per share.  You can read about it here.

Today also tips off earnings week releases of most companies in the Death Care Index (DCI).  Carriage Services and SCI will report after market close today followed by Matthews International tomorrow.  Assurant and Hillenbrand Industries will be reporting next week.

Stay tuned in the next week as Funeral Director Daily will cover the reports and analyze what is going on in the public face of the industry.