American Cemetery and Cremation

1 week ago | kates-boylston.com | Anthony Russo

What follows are excerpts from Eric Tanzberger, Service Corporation International’s CFO’s talk and resulting Q&A from the recent Oppenheimer 25th Annual Consumer Growth and E-Commerce Conference. We’ve pulled out some of the more salient numbers and added quotes from the transcript to capture the sense of the meeting. Although there weren’t a lot of surprises in the presentation, discussions about inflation and event centers were particularly enlightening.

1 week ago | kates-boylston.com | Anthony Russo

In this week’s FSI newsletter we got a chance to talk with Joe Celentano, the president and CEO of NGL which recently announced its decision to restructure as a mutual holding company. That would have been a boring announcement a year ago, but in this climate, whenever an insurance company wants to be more “financially flexible,” it’s worth at least a phone call. We talked to him a little bit about the implications of that flexibility and some of the other things going on at NGL.

2 weeks ago | kates-boylston.com | Anthony Russo

In this week’s issue of FSI we feature funeral director Colin Maxon, a first-generation guy whose only bar to success was becoming an owner. He has a really cool story and it was a pleasure to talk to him. We also talk to Tom Nondorf, the editor of American Cemetery & Cremation, about the June edition. I don’t spend a ton of time on Reddit, but I am a member of the r/askfuneraldirectors Reddit page, so I get notifications.

3 weeks ago | kates-boylston.com | Anthony Russo

I know this moment in time represents the last hurrah for the old white guy club, so many of us are making hay while the sun shines. Still, it’s odd to see such a fanatical aversion to change in a business so well acquainted with the inevitability of mortality.  Here I’m not just talking about the NFDA institutionally, but an attitude that pervades the system.

3 weeks ago | kates-boylston.com | Anthony Russo

In this week’s issue of FSI we feature funeral director Colin Maxon, a first-generation guy whose only bar to success was becoming an owner. He has a really cool story and it was a pleasure to talk to him. We also talk to Tom Nondorf, the editor of American Cemetery & Cremation, about the June edition. I don’t spend a ton of time on Reddit, but I am a member of the r/askfuneraldirectors Reddit page, so I get notifications.