John Plender is a British financial journalist.

John Plender
NationalityBritish
OccupationFinancial journalist
Years active1981–present

John Plender is with the Financial Times where he has been a columnist and a senior editorial writer since 1981. He is also a broadcaster on current affairs for Channel 4 and the BBC. Earlier in his career he was with The Economist.[1]

In 1992 he broke the story of the Church of England's investment losses.[2]

Books edit

  • That’s The Way The Money Goes, with Andre Deutsch, (1982)
  • The Square Mile, with Paul Wallace, (Hutchinson, 1984)
  • A Stake in the Future, with Nicholas Brealey, 1997)
  • Going Off The Rails - Global Capital and the Crisis of Legitimacy, with John Wiley (2003)
  • Ethics and Public Finance with Avinash Persaud, (Longtail, 2007)[3]
  • Capitalism: Money, Morals, and Markets, (Biteback, 2015)[4][5]

References edit

  1. ^ "John Plender (corporate bio)". Financial Times. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
  2. ^ "Unholy Saga of the Church's Missing Millions", 11 July 1992, Financial Times
  3. ^ "Doing the right thing doesn't mean you scratch my back...". Telegraph. 17 January 2007.
  4. ^ "What's the Alternative (book review)". The Economist. 15 August 2015.
  5. ^ Priestland, David (24 July 2015). "Capitalism: Money, Morals and Markets (book review)". Financial Times. Retrieved 17 August 2015.