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Danvil Is Still Berkley on Pre-need Federation Website
Just like Danvil Plans, the Philippine Federation of Pre-Need Plan Companies Inc. (PFPPCI) doesn’t also update its website. The latest post on the site was posted two years ago. Is this one of the signals of the difficult conditions of the pre-need industry? They don’t have people to update their web sites, or they don’t have something to say?
Anyway, according to what’s on the website, as of 2007, there are 48 members. But when one looks at the list of members, there are only 29. These are:
1 Ayala Plans Inc.
2 Berkley International Inc.
representative: Alan Michael Rafe, president
alternate: Daniel Villanueva evp, CFO
3 CocoPlans Inc.
4 CAP Pension
5 CAP Assurance
6 Destiny Financials
7 East Asia Plans
8 Eduplan Inc.
9 Eternal Plans
10 Excel Memorial Life Plan
11 First Union Plan
12 Himlayang Pilipino Plans
13 Ideal Pension Plans
14 Loyola Plans
15 Mercantile Care Plans
16 Manulife Financial
17 Paz Memorial
18 Permanent Plans
19 Philam Plans
20 PETPlans
21 Primanila Plans
22 Provident Plans
23 Prudentialife Plans
24 Redeemer Life Plan
25 St. Peter Life Plan
26 Sun Life Financial
27 TPG Corp.
28 Transnational Plans
29 Trusteeship Plans
The following firms are not listed, but they are included on the home page’s flashing ads:
30 AMA
31 Classic Plans
32 Gillamac
33 Lifetime
34 Millennium
35 Platinum Plans
36 Pryce
It’s interesting to note that the three failed Legacy pre-need firms are not on the list.
Same with Pacific Plans. It’s not in the list. However, according to Chino S. Leyco’s article in the January 28, 2009 issue of “Manila Times,” Noel Oñate, the businessman who acquired Pacific Plans from the Yuchengcos, was elected to the board of the PFPPCI on January 27. Oñate’s company Abundance Providers and Investments Corp. bought Pacific Plans in December 2008 for 250 million pesos.
The one we see speaking on television speaking for the pre-need industry these past weeks, Juan Miguel Madrigal Vazquez, has been president of the PFPPCI since 2005, possibly earlier. I can’t find info on when he was elected president. His educational and professional background is on the site. He’s the president and CEO of Permanent Plans.
Senators’ Web Sites: My Top Seven
Try visiting our senators’ web sites and you’ll be surprised to see some interesting things. While there, you might as well fill up the comments sections and tell them what has been bothering you about our country or any idea that can help them create relevant laws. If a large number of us, working Pinoys, are writing them about the same issue, they could be compelled to consider it.
My ranking of the web sites depended only on how I feel about the web sites and how they interact with users, without regard to how the senators have been performing or how I feel about them. The web sites may or may not be an indication of their performance as senators.
1. Senator Francis “Chiz” Escudero http://www.chizescudero.com/
This is the most interactive site, with 21,080 registered E-forum users as of September 3, 2008. I consider it also the bravest because of Senator Chiz’s challenge for users to tell him anything, however “strong, brilliant, opposing or outlandish.” Spread across the web site are ways to make comments and get heard, such as Views & Comments and Team Chiz. Read more
