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                    [Summary] => Higher prices of pre-need plans boosted sales of the pre-need industry to P19.99 billion in the first half of the year even though the number of plans sold dropped by 13 percent as the public has become more cautious in considering pre-need plans as an investment alternative.


Data culled by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Non-Traditional Securities and Instrument Department showed a P270-million increase in the total sales of over 40 pre-need companies registered with the SEC.


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Sales of pre-need firms shoot up to P19.9-B in first semester

September 13, 2002 - 12:00am

Higher prices of pre-need plans boosted sales of the pre-need industry to P19.99 billion in the first half of the year even though the number of plans sold dropped by 13 percent as the public has become more cautious...

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