About John Plender
Born 1945. John Plender is a British journalist and opinion journalist.
John Plender is a British financial journalist.
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.
In 1992, he broke the story of the Church of England's investment losses.
Books 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) Capitalism: Money, Morals, and Markets, (Biteback, 2015)
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British financial journalist (1945-)
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