One of the world’s most successful investors is probably a person you’ve never heard of. In fact, she doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page.
For Geraldine Weiss, that’s probably just fine. She spent decades of her life in disguise anyway.
Geraldine started a financial advice newsletter in the 1960’s under the name “G. Weiss,” so readers wouldn't know she was a woman. Concealing her gender was important to be taken seriously back then.
Ms. Weiss had a degree from University of California, Berkeley. She demonstrated a strong work ethic. Yet no brokerage firm would even consider her for positions other than secretary.
Regarding the banking and investment world, Ms. Weiss once remarked, “It was a man’s world, and women need not apply.”
She was different, though. She applied anyway.
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