Barron's
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Founded as Barron's National Financial Weekly in 1921 by Clarence W. Barron (1855–1928) as a sister publication to The Wall Street Journal, Barron's covers U.S. financial companies, market developments, and relevant statistics. Each issue provides a summary of the previous week's market activity as well as news, reports, and an outlook on the week to come.
Features
Features in the publication include:
- Market Week – coverage of the previous week's market activity[3][4]
- Barron's Roundtable – Posts from noted investors such as Bill Gross, Mario Gabelli, Abby Joseph Cohen, Felix Zulauf, and Marc Faber[5][6]
- Best Online Brokers – A ranking of the top online trading brokerage firms. Criteria include trading experience and technology, usability, mobile, range of offerings, research amenities, portfolio analysis & report, customer service & education, and costs.[7]
- Top Financial Advisors – America's top financial advisors[8][9]
History
The magazine has been published by Dow Jones & Company since 1921.[10] The magazine is named after Clarence W. Barron,[11] an influential figure to Dow Jones and a founder of modern financial journalism. Dow Jones also publishes The Wall Street Journal. In 1990, color was introduced to the magazine and full color in January 1996. Barron's introduced a two-section version of the paper on March 7, 1994.[12]
Barrons.com[13][14] was launched in 1996 as part of WSJ.com. In 2005, following "its first redesign in nearly 11 years"[15] Barron's relaunched as a standalone product,[16] months after their first Financial Advisor conference.[17]
In September 2008, Barron's acquired the Winner's Circle Organization.[18] In September 2009, Barron's launched Penta as a new section. The section targets "penta-millionaires" (individuals with at least $5 million in assets) with financial advice.[19][20]
Employees
Famous former and current editors, publishers, and journalists of the magazine include:
- Robert Bleiberg, publisher (1982–1989), editor (1954–1981)[21]
- Alan Abelson, columnist[22]
- Clarence W. Barron, "father of financial journalism" and founder of the newspaper
See also
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