From COMMENT 1:15pm

Don’t ask, do tell

From FINANCIALS 11:46pm

Old money alliance will attract new wealth

Rothschild and Rockefeller groups now set to do some bargain-hunting together

From FINANCIALS May 29, 2012

Pru’s uninspired hire faces tough task

From RETAIL & CONSUMER May 24, 2012

HP’s lynch mob decapitates UK tech leader

From UK May 23, 2012

Tax fairness gives government duties

From RETAIL & CONSUMER May 22, 2012

A bolder Bolland would be better for M&S

Store chain’s chief might contemplate a broader shake-up

From COMMENT May 21, 2012

Barclays’ BlackRock timing

Decision to sell stake in US asset manager merits pondering

From UK May 17, 2012

Fundamentalist McFarlane

Reforms of Aviva’s interim boss need to work

From ENERGY May 16, 2012

FSA probe needed PDQ into Lamprell PDMRs

Regulator should consider extending the regime for dealing ‘blackouts’

May 15, 2012

Barnier outsources dirigisme on bank pay

Bonus cap set by shareholders proposed

From FINANCIALS May 14, 2012

Subtraction of Plus to underline deficit

A broader worry is that investment in smaller companies is in irreversible decline

From FINANCIALS May 10, 2012

Guy forks out the cash for Terra Firma

The financier is shelling out £20m on retention bonuses

From HEALTH May 9, 2012

GSK’s knowledge key to hostility

From UK May 8, 2012

Pay votes are bad proxies for investors’ wider gripes

Finding a less equivocal means of communication than objecting to a remuneration report

May 3, 2012

Shareholder spring set to flatten bosses

Investors expect to see further censure votes this month

From MEDIA May 2, 2012

Ofcom must rise above hate storm on BSkyB

Watchdog must prove itself less malleable than Jeremy Hunt

May 1, 2012

Glenstrata objectors derail unstoppable Ivan

From FINANCIALS Apr 30, 2012

Tungsten could give RBS and Lloyds a Plan B

Tenacity and an inability to take No for an answer are recognised qualities of entrepreneurs

From FINANCIALS Apr 26, 2012

Futile for Man chief to rage against machine

Peter Clarke faces struggle with automated trader

From UK Apr 25, 2012

Smith’s exit pins suspicion on lobbyists

News Corp has ensured that companies will find it harder to talk privately to ministers

Lombard

Jonathan Guthrie Jonathan Guthrie is the City editor of the FT, writing and editing Lombard, the agenda-setting column on London-listed businesses and on finance. He has worked for the FT Group for 17 years. For eight years he contributed a weekly column on British business and politics that blended humour with serious comment. His posts have included enterprise editor, Midlands correspondent, UK companies editor, and magazine editor.

Jonathan has edited or contributed to books on eurobonds, derivatives, investment management and M&A published by The Economist, International Financing Review and Mercury Asset Management.

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