Crain's Benefits Outlook 2009 is jointly written, edited and produced by Business Insurance, Financial Week, Pensions & Investments, and Workforce Management-the publications of the Crain Financial Group. A survival guide for companies that sponsor benefit programs, this special publication is designed to equip employers with the latest trends to control costs, boost productivity, and achieve a high rate on investments. With the health care and pension landscape poised for dramatic changes in 2009, Crain's Benefits Outlook will help employers make smart choices when evaluating, revamping and deploying benefit plans.
Business Insurance serves senior-level corporate executives who are responsible for the purchase and administration of corporate insurance/self-insurance programs, encompassing both property and liability insurance, risk management and risk financing, employee benefits management (including life, health and pensions), and workers comp, rehabilitation and disability management. Each week the publication includes news and feature articles related to these key functions for financial and administrative executives, risk and benefits management executives from business and industry, government, associations, unions and educational institutions who spend billions of dollars each year protecting the assets of their businesses and their employees.
Financial Week provides a broad-based, comprehensive package of news and trends written for senior level executives and financial officers at large U.S. companies. Every article is examined and edited based on its news value and its relative importance, with the CFO specifically in mind. Financial Week's emphasis on news, combined with its beat structure, guarantees that each of its reporters is current- anticipating and covering the dynamics of their corner of the world of corporate money. Launched in 2006-and a Jesse H. Neal double-award winner in 2008-Financial Week has quickly gained a reputation as a premier source of news and information on the issues affecting corporate finance departments.
Pensions & Investments delivers news, research and analysis to the executives who manage the
flow of funds in the institutional investment market. Written for pension, portfolio and investment
management executives, Pensions & Investments provides timely and incisive coverage of events affecting the money management business. Written by a worldwide network of reporters and correspondents, Pensions & Investments' coverage includes business and financial news, legislative reports, global investments, product development, technology, investment performance, executive changes, corporate governance and other topics crucial to the interests of professional money.
Workforce Management is the leading business publication for workforce management and human resources professionals providing news, trends and analysis to more than 50,000 print and nearly 414,000 registered online subscribers. Other products include a weekly e-mail newsletter, Workforce Week; twice-monthly newsletter, Dear Workforce, providing a forum for expert human resources Q&A; and the industry respected Optimas Awards. Now in its 85th year, Workforce Management is one of the oldest and one of the largest continuously published business magazines in the United States.
