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Revision as of 19:16, 29 December 2004
Jim Rogers (19 Oct 1942 -) grew up in Demopolis, Alabama, and got started in business at the age of five, selling peanuts. In 1970 he founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros. during the following 10 years the fund gained 4000% while american stock markets were "flat" (they ended the decade where they had begun). It was one of the first truly international funds. Ten years later, 1980 he decided to "retire". Since then he's been a guest professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. In 1989 and 1990 he was the moderator of WCBS's "The Dreyfus Roundtable" and FNN's "The Profit Motive with Jim Rogers". In 1998 he founded the Rogers International Commodity Index, it has increased 185% since Aug. 1, 1998.
Price change
Since Aug 1, 1998
- Rogers International Commodities Index +167.441%
- S&P 500 Index -1.69%
- Lehman Long Treasury Bond Index +49.36%
- Vanguard REIT Index +28.04%
Travels
In the 1980s he traveled on motorcycle through China. In 1990-1992 he traveled through China again, and around the world, on motorcycle, 65,065 miles across six continents, which was picked up in the Guinness Book of World Records. Between 1-1-1999 and 5-2-2002 he did another Guinness World Record journey through through 116 countries, and 245,000 kilometers. The trip began in Iceland, where they were about to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Leif Eriksson's first trip to America. And on the 5th January 2002 they were back in New York City on riverside drive.
External links
- The Millennium Adventure
- Rogers Raw Materials
- FOXNews.com - The Cost of Freedom - The Cost of Freedom - Cavuto on Business (Jim appears most saturdays at 10:30 AM EST)
Articles
Interviews
- || Businessworld - Play the game ||
- rediff.com: The Money Interview/Jim Rogers, investor, globetrotter
- Financial Sense Newshour's Ask The Expert: Jim Rogers
- Financial Sense Newshour's Ask The Expert: Jim Rogers 06.05.2004