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Jonathan Guthrie

Former Head of Lex

Jonathan Guthrie was an associate editor of the FT and the head of Lex, the agenda-setting premium commentary service on global capital. Aside from Lex, Jonathan wrote regular FT columns on world finance and nature.

For six years he was city editor and writer of Lombard, an irreverent column on the square mile and corporate Britain. He has also been enterprise editor, midlands correspondent and UK companies editor. He has led investigations into Eurasian Natural Resources Corp, British Biotech and the “Gem of Tanzania” accounting fraud.

  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    Financial ThinkingInsight & Comment
    Why everyone hates dynamic pricing

    Consumers are particularly indignant if they suspect an algorithm is to blame for price hikes

  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Financial ThinkingPersonal Finance
    Reading between the lines when a CEO steps down

    Investors can deduce a lot from the statements that notify the end of a boss’s tenure 

    Illustration of a hand holding a magnifying glass that is also a speech bubble from a person at a boardroom table
  • Wednesday, 2 April, 2025
    House & Home
    Goldfinches are like Londoners on a summer’s evening — only sober

    In my urban garden, these gregarious, garrulous birds flit from one place of refreshment to another — in their case, it’s not only charming, but a sign of inspiring powers at work

  • Wednesday, 26 March, 2025
    Financial ThinkingInsight & Comment
    Gold is the real ‘Trump put’

    But the craziness from the White House has not turned me into a gold bug yet

  • Wednesday, 19 March, 2025
    Financial ThinkingInsight & Comment
    How to de-fang a fraudster

    Criminals don’t need to break into our homes, if they’re already in our heads

    The illustration is split into two contrasting halves: the left side shows a stormy night where a wolf, disguised in a headscarf, raincoat, and handbag, approaches a house. The right side depicts the warm interior of a home, where a man, looking slightly puzzled, gestures for the visitor to enter
  • Tuesday, 18 March, 2025
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Meltdown — the greed that destroyed Credit Suisse

    Duncan Mavin’s gripping account of the bank’s 2023 implosion exposes a crisis decades in the making

  • Wednesday, 12 March, 2025
    Financial ThinkingInsight & Comment
    When is it ethical to invest in weapons?

    I’m comfortable holding defence stocks — but I’d feel happier if UK politicians were offering reform in return for their ESG reclassification

  • Wednesday, 5 March, 2025
    House & Home
    Is your pet a pest?

    Given the potential for domestic animals to cause damage to wildlife, some conservationists are calling for restrictive measures — but mitigating strategies are surely a first step

    A watercolor illustration of an outdoor scene with birds, dogs, a cat, and people in a grassy park, featuring interactions between animals
  • Wednesday, 26 February, 2025
    Financial ThinkingInsight & Comment
    Tell ‘price walkers’ to take a hike

    We know how this works: you sign up for a deal at a low teaser rate — when it’s time to renew, you’re on a contract with a much higher price

  • Wednesday, 12 February, 2025
    Financial ThinkingPersonal Finance
    Everyday lessons from Trump’s dealmaking style

    Will adopting the US president’s aggressive approach make me a better negotiator?

  • Wednesday, 5 February, 2025
    Environment
    ‘Rogue rewilders’ are jinxing the lynx

    Proposals to reintroduce these ‘lost’ felines to Britain have a romantic appeal to many nature lovers, but illegal releases are hampering hope

    a watercolour-style illustration of a lynx stealthily moving through a snowy forest. In the background, two deer stand alert
  • Wednesday, 29 January, 2025
    Financial ThinkingInsight & Comment
    Do investment trust discounts even matter?

    Conventionally, business downplays characteristics that embarrass them. Investment trust discounts are a curious example of an industry doing the opposite

  • Wednesday, 15 January, 2025
    Financial ThinkingInsight & Comment
    How to overcome the overconfidence of age

    Reduce your ego in the financial decision-making process

  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
    Financial ThinkingInsight & Comment
    How much money buys you happiness in retirement?

    Money can buy you some happiness, but less than you might think

  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2025
    Gardens
    My four-point plan for peat-free gardening success in 2025

    My own alternative mix resulted in cankered cucumbers, pitiable peppers and tasteless tomatoes, so I’ve called in the experts

    An illustration showing a party popper with ‘peat free compost’ written on the label. It has popped with an explosion of flowers, plants and numbers spelling out ‘2025’
  • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
    Financial ThinkingInsight & Comment
    It’s time to cut loose from bad anchor numbers

    Politicians and salespeople frequently seek to tether our thinking to a fixed number — with the aim to nudge us into agreeing to whatever suits them

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Financial ThinkingInsight & Comment
    Accurately predicting the next crash is impossible

    But we can weather downturns better by controlling our own biases

  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Gardens
    Nine gifts for nature lovers

    All they really require is access to green space and time to spend there. But a metal squirrel baffle et al may just enhance their enjoyment

    watercolour-style illustration featuring a red squirrel in a wintery setting
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    Insight & Comment
    It’s bananas to regard art as an investment

    Enjoy your paintings and sculptures. Just don’t expect a return on what you paid for them

  • Wednesday, 20 November, 2024
    Insight & Comment
    Investors need to know when to put down the phone

    Smartphone alerts can promote what behaviourists call ‘overtrading’, shredding your returns — and your nerves

    A hand holding a smartphone showing stocks, coins with the Ethereum logo and a downward pink chart line over a thinking cloud background
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    Financial ThinkingCorporate earnings and results
    Mean reversion: has AI abolished gravity for share prices?

    Despite the Magnificent Seven, US stocks are predicted to be riding for a fall

    Montage of a hand pointing upwards and an arrow pointing downwards over a wavy chart line and a thinking bubble
  • Tuesday, 5 November, 2024
    Gardens
    The first rule of Badger Club: don’t talk about Badger Club

    Brocks are vulnerable in cities as well as the countryside; naturalists are trying to protect them by keeping their whereabouts secret

    A family of badgers is nestled close together in a natural urban setting
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    Financial ThinkingInsight & Comment
    Learn from those missed investment opportunities

    How I missed the boat on OpenAI, BrewDog and BT

    Montage image of a hand reaching after flying origami butterflies made of cash
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Atlas of Finance — a visual aid to the global money maze

    An eclectic and ambitious series of maps, graphs and diagrams helps disclose the locations of hidden riches

    A slice of a graphic with polar charts and line charts
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    Financial ThinkingInvesting in funds
    My unpatriotic portfolio shame

    Should I be denounced for spurning UK domestic assets?

    Montage image of a house, chart line and currency symbols
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