Two days ago, Richard "Ted" Weschler was a successful but unsung hedge-fund manager in this city of 43,000 people hundreds of miles from Wall Street.
Now, a day after the world learned that Mr. Weschler will be working as one of two investment managers under stock picker extraordinaire Warren Buffett, the 50-year-old investor is a minor financial celebrity.
It is a turn in the limelight that Mr. Weschler hasn't been craving, but he can't easily avoid it now that Mr. Buffett is due to hand him as much as $3 billion in investing authority when Mr. Weschler joins Omaha, Neb.-based Berkshire Hathaway Inc. next year.
