Geraint Anderson, head of Dresdner Kleinwort’s London-based utilities team until May and a runner-up in this year’s Institutional Investor All-Europe Research Team, achieved a different sort of fame last month. No staid number-cruncher, Anderson, 35, quit Dresdner and revealed himself as the man behind the most popular weekly column in the free London tabloid TheLondonPaper: the often vulgar “Cityboy” feature, which reveals “everything you always wanted to know about the City but were afraid to ask.” Anderson’s memoir, Cityboy: Beer and Loathing in the Square Mile, veiled as fiction, follows the misadventures of his alter ego, utilities analyst Steve Jones, who plunges into “the drug- and alcohol-addled, decadent world of modern finance,” as he tells II. “I always had misgivings about the selfish, greedy, short-term gambling that sums up the ethos of a bonus-based culture where people use other people’s money irresponsibly.”