Journalist, author and adviser
Finance and nature
Finance and nature
My handbook for private investors is scheduled to publish in November 2025 (FT Publishing). It demystifies finance, with the aim of helping you make better returns.
Jonathan Guthrie is an award-winning journalist, writer and adviser. He contributes regular columns
to the Financial Times on a freelance basis: Financial Thinking, for private investors, savers and
consumers; and Nature Therapy, which aims to deepen appreciation of wild animals and plants.
He is a trustee of the Pensions Policy Institute, a leading research charity, and a member of the
Oversight Group of the Church Commissioners’ reparatory initiative, the Healing, Repair and Justice
Fund. He also provides financial training and strategic analysis to corporate clients.
He worked full time at the FT from 1997 to 2024, latterly as associate editor and head of Lex, the
daily investment column. Before that he was the FT’s City Editor and wrote the irreverent daily
column Lombard. Other posts included UK Companies Editor and Personal Finance Writer.
Jonathan led three notable investigations into financial irregularities, two of which were followed by
the delisting of the FTSE100 businesses involved. He has won several awards including Campaigning
Journalist of the Year 2023 (WTW Awards) for columns on Ukraine and Outstanding Contribution to
Journalism 2023 (State Street Awards) for critiques of short selling and the taxation of private equity
executives. He created the FT’s award-winning Carbon Counter series quantifying household CO2
output and the newspaper’s daily City newsletter.
Earlier in his career Jonathan edited the magazines Pensions Management and Professional Investor,
wrote for International Financing Review and The Economist, and worked for the best part of a year
at a development project in rural India. He has a degree in English Literature from Nottingham
University. He is a freeman of the City of London.
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Jonathan Buchanan Guthrie