[2] Taking a gap year in Asia, Anderson says he lived the hippy life and smoked cannabis.
In 1996, Anderson's older brother Huw, who worked as fund manager with the Dutch investment bank ABN Amro, arranged an interview for him.
His team became number two in the utilities sector and Anderson was personally judged the fourth highest-ranked analyst (out of around 100).
[2] Anderson started writing his "City Boy" column in the third quarter of 2006 for The London Paper, which became a popular piece with some readers of the newly launched free newspaper.
It is about a man who writes an anonymous column for a London-based newspaper, breaks into his boss's computer and discovers a major crime.