Jim Rogers is an author, financial commentator and successful international investor. He has been frequently featured in Time, The New York Times, Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and is a regular guest on Bloomberg and CNBC.
Jim Rogers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, is an author, financial
commentator and successful international investor. He has been
frequently featured in Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times,
Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times,
and most publications dealing with the economy or finance.
After attending Yale and Oxford University, Jim Rogers co-founded the
Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years,
the portfolio gained 4200%, while the S&P 500 rose less than 50%.
Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37.
In 1990-1992, Jim Rogers fulfilled his lifelong dream: motorcycling
100,000 miles across six continents, a feat that landed him in the
Guinness Book of World Records. As a private investor, he constantly
analyzed the countries through which he traveled for investment ideas.
He chronicled his one-of-a-kind journey in Investment Biker: On the Road
with Jim Rogers. Jim also embarked on a Millennium Adventure. He
traveled for 1101 days on his round-the-world, Guinness World Record
journey. Passing through 116 countries, he covered more than 245,000
kilometers, which he recounted in his book Adventure Capitalist: The
Ultimate Road Trip. His latest book "A Gift to My Children: A Father's
Lessons for Life and Investing" was published in 2009.
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