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Recent reviews of Death Care credit

By Funeral Director Daily / July 2, 2024 /

    In the last couple of weeks Funeral Director Daily has noticed three companies involved in the Death Care business being under review.   You can read a short commentary from either Fitch Ratings or A.M. Best on the following companies:   Matthews International Heritage Life Insurance Company Homesteaders Life Insurance Company   Enter your…

Public consumer funeral operating companies show stock price growth in first-half of 2024

By Funeral Director Daily / July 2, 2024 /

    The Funeral Director Daily Death Care Index (DCI) which consists of five stocks that deal in Death Care in some way continued to move lower in the 2nd Quarter of 2024 which ended last Friday.  As a matter of fact, the only stock in the DCI that moved forward in the 2nd Quarter…

Politics, political correctness, and your funeral home

By Funeral Director Daily / July 1, 2024 /

    It was almost impossible last week to live in the United States and not know or hear about the Presidential Debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.  Even if you didn’t want to know it was happening, you knew anyway because it dominated the news and announcements on almost every…

Lots of competition. . .lots of opportunity

By Funeral Director Daily / June 28, 2024 /

    I received the July 2024 edition of The Director and read many of the articles.  One that interested me was authored by Curtis Rostad and was titled “Prices vs. The Internet”.  I enjoyed the entire article and think the author makes a great point, but what really captivated me was his perception that almost…

Homesteaders Life partners with Gather’s case management platform

By Funeral Director Daily / June 27, 2024 /

    Homesteaders Life Insurance Company of Iowa has been in the news a lot lately.  The preneed company that issued its first policy for final expenses in 1906 most recently announced in this press release that they have formed a partnership with Gather’s case management platform.   According to the press release,  “The new…

Podcast points out importance of “Focus” in building your brand

By Funeral Director Daily / June 26, 2024 /

    Only a few years ago Dan Garrett of the United Kingdom founded the will writing company Farewill in that country.  He estimates that his company has moved, via estates, a wealth transfer of more than 100 billion pounds of assets.  He’s moved on to also start a firm in Direct Cremation with “Farewill…

Banks, Northey to present Funeral365 webinar tomorrow

By Funeral Director Daily / June 25, 2024 /

  Funeral365, the management solution company for funeral service, is presenting a free online seminar tomorrow, Wednesday, June 26, at 4 pm Eastern Time (3 pm Central Time).   Here’s what the people at Funeral365 say that you can learn from this presentation: The current state of the deathcare industry and financial trends Innovative approaches…

ChurchFunerals Direct announces partnership with OARBC

By Funeral Director Daily / June 25, 2024 /

Earlier this month ChurchFunerals Direct, an Ohio-based funeral services provider made this announcement that they had formed a partnership with the Ohio Association of Regular Baptist Churches (OARBC).  According to the announcement, ChurchFunerals Direct is now “the official state funeral provider for the 134 churches in the OARBC.   According to Mark May, ChurchFunerals Direct…

Johnson Consulting’s Jake Johnson to be featured in Order of the Golden Rule “WebEd” series

By Funeral Director Daily / June 24, 2024 /

    Succession planning and driving enterprise value upward should always be in our minds as owners, managers, and key stakeholders in a business. “The why behind all we do.”  –  That sentence is part of a teaser put out for a webinar to appear on the Order of the Golden Rule’s WebEd” series tomorrow,…

Compensation — “Who makes the decisions?”

By Funeral Director Daily / June 24, 2024 /

    Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently received a new wage package from the Board of Directors and it has caused Tesla, Musk, and the amount of Executive Pay to be in the spotlight.  For the record, Musk just received a 10-year pay package valued at $47 billion over the next ten years.   It…