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                    [Title] => SEC defends stand on Pacific Plans
                    [Summary] => The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has defended its position with respect to Pacific Plans Inc.’s filing for rehabilitation with the court, pointing out that its findings were based on the pre-need firm’s submitted records.


"The statements we issued were based on files here in the office after double checking submissions made by the company.  Everything came from them.  We were just informing the public what we know based on the filings made by Pacific Plans,"commission secretary Gerard Lukban said yesterday.


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                    [Title] => Prudentialife Plans sees big net profit
                    [Summary] => Prudentialife Plans expects to generate a net income of between P300 to P500 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2005 compared to P302 million last fiscal year, even as its trust fund as of end-March this year reached P12.5 billion, the biggest in the pre-need industry. 


This as Prudentialife president Jose Alberto Alba told The STAR that the company has no problem meeting its financial obligations to its planholders, including those holding the traditional or open-ended educational plans. "We have sufficient assets," he stressed. 


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                    [Title] => The Yuchengcos must protect their name
                    [Summary] => The Pacific Plan fiasco is a good case study in crisis management. How the Yuchengcos react, how they finally resolve the problematic situation will determine the level of trust the public will have on them as managers and guardians of people’s money in their banking and insurance businesses. The family has been eerily quiet for now. 


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                    [Title] => Pacific Plans sales hit P1.4-B in first semester
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That puts the pre-need company of the Yuchengco Group of Companies (YGC) still on track with its full year target of P3.7 billion in PNP terms. Last year, it racked up an impressive P3.13 billion.


However, the original target for first semester PNP was P1.8 billion.


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ADB, PIFS strengthen regional cooperation

March 12, 2009 - 9:00pm

WELLINGTON (Xinhua) - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (PIFS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to strengthen regional cooperation, the Suva-based PIFS said...

SEC defends stand on Pacific Plans

By Zinnia B. Dela Peña | May 24, 2005 - 12:00am

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has defended its position with respect to Pacific Plans Inc.’s filing for rehabilitation with the court, pointing out that its findings were based on the pre-need...

Business

Prudentialife Plans sees big net profit

April 29, 2005 - 12:00am

Prudentialife Plans expects to generate a net income of between P300 to P500 million for the fiscal year ending March 31, 2005 compared to P302 million last fiscal year, even as its trust fund as of end-March this...

Business

The Yuchengcos must protect their name

By Boo Chanco | April 29, 2005 - 12:00am

The Pacific Plan fiasco is a good case study in crisis management. How the Yuchengcos react, how they finally resolve the problematic situation will determine the level of trust the public will have on them as managers...

Business

Pacific Plans sales hit P1.4-B in first semester

By Ted P. Torres | July 29, 2003 - 12:00am

After six months into 2003, Pacific Plans Inc. sold all types of pre-need products amounting to P1.4 billion in terms of pre-need prices (PNP). That puts the pre-need company of the Yuchengco Group of Companies...

Banking