
A securities lawyer became a bond trader, then traded the screen for soil. Nearly two decades later, his farmland thesis has become a $2 billion platform inside WisdomTree - while another revealing investment sits in the classrooms he helped redesign.
Perry Vieth left a $7 billion bond desk to buy dirt. Eighteen years later, corn and soybean acres he leases to family farmers are worth $1.85 billion - and Wall Street finally wants in.