About us

Managing Partner

The founder and managing partner of The Investment Consultant is Lex Boogaarts. Dutch by birth, with more than 40 years of experience in corporate and private banking and asset management. For the past 15 years, he has been the founding partner of Client First Finance in the Netherlands. This company was sold to the staff in 2023 and The Investment Consultant was founded in that year. Since then, he has been working for a select group of clients. He chooses his own customers and his customers choose him.

In addition to an MSc and an MBA degree, he is qualified as a Risk Manager (FRM), Performance Analyst (CIPM) and Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA). He studied at universities in the Netherlands and the USA (Stanford Business School, Harvard Business School and Rochester University). He has taught Corporate Finance and Asset Management at Nyenrode University in the Netherlands.

Profit-sharing model

The starting point is that the customer benefits from engaging us. We work according to the no-cure-no-pay principle, in which the remuneration is related to the performance achieved.

A client can also opt for a reimbursement of the costs incurred by us in combination with an hourly fee of € 450.

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