Geraint Anderson

Geraint Anderson (born 1972 in Notting Hill, London), is a former City of London utilities sector analyst, and newspaper columnist, best known for his "City Boy" column in thelondonpaper.cite web|url=http://cityboy.thelondonpaper.com/interview/|title=City Boy interview|publisher=thelondonpaper|date=2008-06-18|accessdate = 2008-06-18]

Early life

The third son of Labour politician Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea and his missionary wife Dorothy, herself the daughter of Bolivian missionaries. Raised at his parents London home in Notting Hill, he was educated at Fox School in Notting Hill Gate, and Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith.citeweb|url=http://cityboy.thelondonpaper.com/history/|title=City Boy - History|publisher=thelondonpaper.com|date=2008-06-18|accessdate = 2008-06-18] Taking a gap year in Asia, Anderson says he lived the hippy life and smoked dope. He then undertook a degree in history at Queens' College, University of Cambridge, and then an MA in revolutions at Sussex University, before heading back to Goa to plan a trading based lifestyle in trinkets.citeweb|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1029229/How-city-boy-game-turned-500-000-bonuses-write-book-makes-city-tick.html|title=How one city boy at the top of his game turned his back on £500,000 bonuses to write a book on what makes the city tick|author=Davies, Barbara|publisher=Daily Mail|date=2008-06-25|accessdate=2008-06-26]

Banking

However, his parents were not pleased, and so his older brother Hugh who worked as fund manager with Dutch investment bank ABN Amro arranged an interview in 1996. Anderson was resultantly employed as a utilities analyst, composing models of publicly listed companies. Within five years, his salary had jumped from £24,000 to £120,000; his first three years of bonuses: £14,000; £55,000 and £140,000. In 1997 he moved to Société Générale, and in 1999 to Commerzbank.

In 2000 Anderson joined Dresdner Kleinwort. Named top stock-picker two years running, appointed joint team leader of the utilities research team, the team becomes number two in the utilities sector and Anderson is personally judged the fourth highest-ranked analyst (out of around 100).

City Boy

Anderson started writing his "City Boy" column in the third quarter of 2006 for thelondonpaper, which quickly became one of the most popular pieces in the newly launched free newspaper. [citeweb|url=http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article4166035.ece|title=City Boy: so hard to love|publisher=The Times|date=2008-06-19|accessdate=2008-06-26]

On 19 December 2007 while on holiday in Goa, Anderson's boss called to reveal his annual bonus as £500,000: "I wasn't sure if he was going to say: "We know you're Cityboy. Goodbye" or "Here's half a million pounds".' Fortunately, it was the latter."

On 18 June 2008, it was revealed that Anderson was the columnist "City Boy" of thelondonpaper. [citeweb|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article4165716.ece|title=Uncovered: Geraint Anderson, Cityboy|publisher=The Times|date=2008-06-18|accessdate=2008-06-26] The following week he published his first book: "Cityboy: Beer And Loathing In The Square Mile."

References

External links

* [http://www.cityboy.biz/ City Boy website]
* [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1029229/Sex-City-Boy-Champagne-cocaine-prostitutes--Square-Mile.html Daily Mail article]
* [http://www.eyebrowmagazine.com/visual_treats/ebtv/city_boy_interview Eyebrow magazine interview]