“Warren Buffett’s deputies are trailing both their mentor and the market” - first in what will be a must-read series for Buffettologists and anyone fascinated by investing ft.com/content/fd3b33… by Eric Platt Eva Xiao and Patrick Mathurin

ICYMI - a great and eclectic list of business and not-so-business books picked by past winners of the FT book award, now in its 20th year #BBYA24

“Franco burned Gernika… but Franco, for me, was Spain’s saviour from everything” - ⁦Tomás⁩ for ⁦The Athletic⁩ with a moving account from Gernika, on football, Picasso’s painting and Spain’s flawed reckoning with its traumatic past theathletic.com/5438566/2024/0…

From Thinking, Fast and Slow to The Lorax and The Grapes of Wrath - the 20th edition of the FT Business Book of the Year Award, now backed by Schroders, launches today - we asked past winners to pick their favourite business books of all time #BBYA24 on.ft.com/49Ro27c

In which I read all 19 past winners of the FT Business Book of the Year Award in less than 3 seconds #BBYA24

The hunt for 2024's best business book starts now! Enter the 20th annual Financial Times & Schroders Business Book of the Year Award and you could win £30,000! Find out more and submit your masterpiece here: bit.ly/3Jr1YFM

Deadline 30 June 2024. #BBYA24
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Call off the ‘proxy wars’ - my latest column on why company boards are wrong to shoot the proxy adviser messengers #CorpGov
on.ft.com/3w9fKd2

“After five years on our parish council, I’ve come to see in this tiny, ancient institution what I wish I saw more often in the boardrooms of larger, richer and more powerful organisations” - great column from ⁦Margaret Heffernan⁩ #leadership on.ft.com/3xKIEk7

Lies, work, burnout, Formula 1 and AI - the FT's business books of April, including my review of Ethan Mollick's (excellent) 'Co-Intelligence' ft.com/content/8c7e08… #FTBizBooks

“Emissions decline would offer concrete evidence that demand for fossil fuels was more fragile than appreciated, & competition in the global clean energy race more robust” - food for thought for the #FTCommodities summit audience, by ⁦Pilita Clark⁩
on.ft.com/3xDcaIt

Michael Jensen failed to carry his rent-seeking argument to its conclusion. If “agents” act as rent-seekers when they are running big companies, why would we assume that they will behave differently if they are given share options?
bloomberg.com/opinion/articl… via Bloomberg Opinion

'If you cut [US-China trade] off tomorrow, it's a problem for the entire world' - Jeremy Weir, Trafigura CEO, on the disruption Trump tariffs on China could cause
#FTCommodities

Our Energy Source newsletter with a round-up of the #ftcommodities summit highlights so far on.ft.com/3TOhccN Financial Times Live

'Are we going to have an orderly energy transition? Very unlikely. Is it going to be bumpy? Definitely. Could it completely derail? Possibly' - Ben van Beurden in his first interview since stepping down as Shell CEO #FTCommodities

'Russian women are pushing men into the war because [as a soldier] he's not drinking, he's bringing in money - and if he dies she will be a respected widow with lots of social benefits' - Alexandra Prokopenko Carnegie Russia Eurasia #FTCommodities