Most funeral directors would be hard pressed to calculate what investment return their preneed trust is producing. Regular deposit and distribution activity makes computation of investment returns difficult. The more frequent the activity, the harder it is to compute the return. Accordingly, it would be easier for the funeral director to look at paid in
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Preneed Shortfalls: Performance Cost Increases
By Bill Stalter on
Posted in Preneed Shortfalls, Price Protection
In our prior post we discussed two factors to preneed shortfalls: investment returns and the operator’s performance cost increases. The Funeral Consumer Alliance of Greater Kansas City conducts an annual survey of the region’s funeral homes to track the price increases on their General Price Lists. A couple days after our post, the Kansas City…