Don’t miss an article in today’s Wall Street Journal. It is free for a week.
The article is about Mark Gerson and his firm Gerson Lehrman. Created more than six years ago, Gerson Lehrman finds experts in eight major corporate fields, many of whom are directly employed in their fields of expertise. The clients that pay these experts are investment firms and funds.
I have always used this “call the mid-level person who knows what is happening in the business” for my investment decisions. I ran a foundation portfolio for eleven years. I’m glad to see that someone has made my informal practice into a thriving public business.