• Gina dela Vega-Cruz and Tes Lariosa

DANVIL PLANS, INC. Trust Fund has reached the P4 Billion mark! The high point comes at an auspicious time for the company which is marking its 10th year in the industry and is starting to release benefits to its first wave of claimants from maturing plans. Now owned and headed by its new President, former EVP-Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Daniel Villanueva, the company continues to be at the forefront of sales and marketing in the pre-need industry.

The company's prudent financial management in the past ten years has enabled it to attract a substantial percentage of the industry pie, placing it consistently among the Top 5 in terms of new business for the educational plan sector. In its 2006 audited financials, the company's total assets of P5.3 billion showed a significant increase from 2005.

As of end-October, the investment in Trust Fund amounted to P4.01 billion, 67% of which is in long-term government securities, and the rest in cash and equity. This sound financial achievement, only one of many finance-related milestones for which the company has been known through the years, is largely credited with making clients stay put even amidst the initial ambivalence brought about by the buy-out at the beginning of this year.

This feat is indeed something to make you, our dear planholders, all the more assured that we are here to stay for the long haul.

Danvil Plans, Inc. (formerly Berkley Plans) released its first wave of maturity checks to its first group of pioneer planholders. Receiving their checks from Danvil Plans AVP and Branch Manager Aurora Diño (extreme left) are Ariel Cotoner, Cynfrosa Talampas, and Jesus Roy Villanueva with family.