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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.

  • 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
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    Financial ThinkingInsight & Comment
    Four investment mistakes you really don’t want to repeat

    It’s not easy, but the best investors learn from their errors

    A trash bin full of crumpled papers
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Gardens
    Hallucinogens, hexes and healing — inside the witch’s garden

    All too often plants are demoted from mysterious organisms to passive garden ornaments. Henbane, mandrake and other ‘witching herbs’ remind us to carefully respect their power and magic

    An illustration of a garden, with roots, flowers and leaves, and two witches flying away on broomsticks. A sign shows a skull and crossbones
  • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
    House & Home
    Building more houses is great, but where are the parks to go with them?

    Urban green spaces are oases of serenity amid tumult — and needed more than ever

    Illustration of people playing in the park, with flowers and insects in the foreground and city buildings in the background
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    House & Home
    Seagulls just wanna have fun

    Summer is here, and so are the seaside scavengers. But we have lots in common with the much-maligned birds — let’s celebrate it

    A drawing featuring several seagulls flying against a grey, cloudy background. The seagulls are holding objects in their beaks, such as pieces of food or debris
  • Monday, 25 December, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Ukrainian refugees plant seeds of a second life in our home

    With war still raging in their native land, no one knows if this story will end in a safe return

  • Sunday, 24 December, 2023
    Gardens
    Prepare for a waxwing winter

    Certain birds are flocking to UK gardens and supermarket car parks because of this year’s abundance of berries

    An illustration of waxwings, red berries and mistletoe
  • Thursday, 14 December, 2023
    Unhedged Podcast16 min listen
    Thirty-seven years of wisdom

    Longtime FT columnist Jonathan Guthrie retires with a note on what he’s learnt

  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    Financial services
    What I have learnt in 37 years of financial journalism

    Amid all the recurring crises, a few universal constants will always apply

    A combination image of Jonathan Guthrie, an FT front page, bowler hat and hedgehog
  • Friday, 8 December, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: science is where the magic happens Premium content

    Plus, Sanofi, Roche, Merck KGaA, China biotech, US healthcare, Airbus

    Joseph Wright’s painting ‘An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump’
  • Friday, 1 December, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: Charlie Munger nailed why US capitalism flourishes Premium content

    Plus, Shein, US stocks, Elon Musk, Robinhood, COP28, Rolls-Royce, Heathrow

    Tim Robbins and Paul Newman in a scene from 1994 film ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: is a leather jacketed CEO a sell signal? Premium content

    Plus, OpenAI, Intel, UK pensions, Italian banks, Julius Baer, Virgin Money

    Photos of Marlon Brando and Jensen Huang both wearing leather jackets
  • Friday, 24 November, 2023
    House & Home
    Who — or what — killed the sparrows?

    It’s easy to blame the sparrowhawk for the reduction in their numbers but there are other, non-animal world culprits

  • Friday, 17 November, 2023
    LexCompanies
    The Lex Newsletter: are we nearly there yet? Premium content

    Plus, British Land, Walmart, Carvana, BT, Berkshire Hathaway, Burberry, Manchester City

    An image from a US magazine advert for Ethyl Corp, c1950s
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