Financial World was an American magazine for investors that operated from 1902 to 1998. The magazine was known for its annual "Bronze Award", given to whoever it deemed was that year's top corporate CEO.

Publication history

Financial World was founded in 1902 by Louis Guenther in Chicago and later moved to New York.^[1][2] It was originally issued weekly, and later every two weeks.

In 1980, Macro Communications owned the magazine. By the 1980s, the magazine was known for publishing annual lists of the year's top money-makers. As of 1983, Financial World specialized in information for individual investors.^[1] The magazine was purchased in 1983 by Carl Lindner Jr., and sold to Barry Rupp, Steve Rupp, and Timothy Draper in 1995.^[2]

In the magazine's later years of publication, its signature issue was the "Sports Franchise Valuation Issue". In its last years, this feature was prepared by Andrew Zimbalist, who became a contributor to Forbes.

The magazine went defunct in 1998.^[2][3]

Bronze Award recipients

• Rick de Lome
• Mary Lynn Van Dyken
• Jim Zahrt
• 1982 Raymond Mundt
• 1990 Amy Ink
• 1993 Donald Haberek
• 1994 Ronald L. Bittner
• 1995 Ronald L. Bittner
• 1996 Brian Engel

Notable alumni of Financial World

• Stacey Bradford, financial journalist, author, and commentator
• Dan Cordtz, economics correspondent
• Dan Dorfman, television and print commentator and columnist^[4]
• Seth Hoyt, former publisher of Cosmopolitan Magazine^[5]
• Joseph Livingston, FW public utility editor in 1934^[6]
• Douglas McIntyre, technology entrepreneur^[7]
• Richard Sandomir, television, sports, and business reporter
• Anson Weston Smith, executive vice-president, father of the famous radio DJ 'Wolfman Jack'
• John Hancock Willing Rhein, III, Sr. VP, Associate Publisher (1973–1982)
• Andrew Zimbalist, economist and author