Funeral Director Daily

Preneed companies emerge as funeral home lending sources

By Funeral Director Daily / October 3, 2025 /

    Morgan Stanley, a global financial services firm that provides a wide range of products and services, including investment banking, wealth management, consumer banking, and brokerage services, recently made this comment in an article, “Life insurance companies have rapidly evolved into influential players in the credit markets.  Their growing footprint is not merely a function…

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A couple of recent economic trends. . . Will they affect funeral service?

By Funeral Director Daily / October 2, 2025 /

    Just the other morning I read two articles from Yahoo Finance which showed a couple of trends happening in American society.  The first trend can be read about in this article titled “There are more Americans out of work than their are jobs open for the first time since 2021″.   And the…

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Co-op Funeralcare increases “Funeral Plan” sales over 17% despite cyberattack

By Funeral Director Daily / October 1, 2025 /

  An April cyberattack which you can read about here probably cost the parent company of Great Britain’s largest funeral home operator, Co-op Funeralcare, about a US$ 107 million profit swing but didn’t seem to affect the number of funeral plans sold by the company as they increased over 17% from the previous year.  …

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News for the Profession

By Funeral Director Daily / September 30, 2025 /

    Sunset continues to redefine their process of finding assets for families.  They recently announced that they have a new website that makes the search for assets even easier. Sunset is a free service who earns their fee from bank partners after discovered assets sit in an estate account. It’s a great service that…

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Acquiring client families — “Any Which Way You Can”

By Funeral Director Daily / September 30, 2025 /

    As so often happens in my world I’ve had some real life and/or businesses experiences or discussions in the last week or ten days that has made me think about Death Care.  And, specifically to today’s article, about how the acquisition solicitation of client families to choose your specific Death Care operation for…

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Veteran Cemeteries will continue with burials. . . but what is open and closed on a government shutdown

By Funeral Director Daily / September 29, 2025 /

  Tomorrow is the last day of the federal government’s fiscal year.  That is not necessarily a big deal except that the new federal budget year begins on Wednesday and as I write this on Sunday no agreement to fund the federal government of the United States is in place moving forward.  If there is…

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Propel Funeral Partners sees higher revenue, net profit in FY2025

By Funeral Director Daily / September 26, 2025 /

    Public funeral home operator Propel Funeral Partners released their Fiscal Year 2025 results recently and the results which cover the period of July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, show higher revenue and higher net profits for the company.  On the downside, however, Propel Funeral Partners (PFP) showed a contraction in funeral volumes…

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An economic downturn and the Death Care profession

By Funeral Director Daily / September 25, 2025 /

    With all that is happening in our econony it is very difficult to get an idea of where that economy is heading.  With all of the different indexes in place today and many seeming to go in opposite directions it is hard to get a barometer of where the United States economy is…

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Green Burials. . . . . .The Resistance

By Funeral Director Daily / September 25, 2025 /

    Minnesota funeral director Scott Mueller is a proponent of “Green Burials”.  Mueller makes a comment in this recent article from the Rochester (MN) Post-Bulletin titled “As interest in green burials grows, so does some opposition”.  Mueller’s comment is this, “As long as people have walked this earth, we’ve had green burials.  Every cemetery…

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Is your funeral home “Streaming” yet?

By Funeral Director Daily / September 24, 2025 /

    Okay — that headline is somewhat of a trick question.   I’m guessing that your funeral home is “streaming” services. . . . . but, are you “streaming” in your advertising and branding strategy?   As of March 2025 “streaming” represented 43.8% of overall TV watch time in the United States.  And, it is…

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