Geraint Anderson

Geraint Anderson (born 1972 in Notting Hill, London ) is a former high-ranking investment banker, columnist and son of the British Labour MP Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea. He was known for his column in the newspaper thelondonpaper, which he published under the pseudonym City Boy. In this he laid the morally questionable actions and attitudes among the London investment bankers, the so-called city boys, open. For magazine Der Spiegel Anderson is " something of a witness who provides information on banking culture and style, with the money from money has been made ​​in the financial center of the world."

Life

Background and education

The third son of the politician Donald Anderson, Baron Anderson of Swansea and his wife Dorothy, a missionary 's daughter, grew up with his parents in London's Notting Hill, first attended the local Fox School and later the Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith. During a one-year break in Asia Anderson lived by its own account as a hippie and cannabis consumed. He then earned a degree in history at Queens ' College, University of Cambridge, and a master on the subject of revolution at Sussex University to travel in connection to Goa and to live from trading with small jewelry items.

Career as an investment banker

Since Anderson's parents did not agree with his life plan, arranged in 1996 his older brother Hugh, who worked as a fund manager at the Dutch investment bank ABN Amro, a job interview for him. Anderson was set in the result as an analyst for the energy sector. Within five years, his annual income rose from £ 24,000 to £ 120,000; the bonuses in his first three years amounted to £ 14,000, £ 55,000 and £ 140,000. In 1997 he moved to Société Générale, two years later to Commerzbank.

As of the 2000 Anderson had a stocked with success setting at Dresdner Kleinwort: He was appointed in two years running for a top stock picker; with the appointment as Team Leader for the analysis of the energy sector, the team reached the second place within its range, and Anderson himself was evaluated under a hundred analysts as the fourth best.

City Boy

After a traffic accident Anderson got into a crisis of conscience due to his profession. Inspired by a former classmate who now worked at the newly established free newspaper thelondonpaper, he therefore began in the third quarter of 2006 to write the column revealing City Boy, which enjoyed great popularity in a short time. It was only on 18 June 2008, seven months after he was awarded his last bonus of £ 500,000, he made ​​himself known as author of the column.

Since then he appears on radio and in television interviews and through various publications as a critic of the London and international finance. He has also recently operated charitable.

Anderson is now represented as a kind of forecasters of the financial crisis in 2007. The Mirror quoted a statement by Anderson in 2006: " When this house of cards falters once, even people who have invested in good faith in seemingly solid funds will find that they are just as good at the game table would have all their money on black can set. "

Works

  • Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile, Headline 2008, ISBN 0755346173
  • Cityboy: The book from the heart of London's financial district, Börsenmedien AG 2009, ISBN 3938350881
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