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Jim Rogers
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James Beeland Rogers, Jr. (born October 19, 1942) is an James Beeland Rogers, Jr.
American investor and financial commentator based both in
Born October 19, 1942
Singapore and Miami.[2] He was a co-founder of the
Baltimore, Maryland, USA [1]
Quantum Fund, and is a college professor, author, economic
commentator, and creator of the Rogers International Alma mater Balliol College, Oxford
Commodities Index (RICI). He is an outspoken proponent of Yale University
the free market but does not consider himself a member of
Occupation Financial investor
any school of thought. Rogers acknowledges, however, that
his views best fit the label of Austrian School of economics.[3] Website
jimrogers.com (http://www.jimrogers.com/)

Contents
1 Biography
2 Books
3 References
4 Further reading
5 External links
5.1 Articles
5.2 Interviews

Biography
Rogers was born in Baltimore, Maryland and raised in Demopolis, Alabama.[1][4] He started in business at the age
of five by selling peanuts and by picking up empty bottles that fans left behind at baseball games. He got his first job
on Wall Street, at Dominick & Dominick, after graduating with a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1964.
Rogers then acquired a second BA degree from Balliol College, Oxford University in 1966.

In 1970, Rogers joined Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder. That same year, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund.
During the following 10 years the portfolio gained 4200% while the S&P advanced about 47%.[5] It was one of the
first truly international funds.

In 1980, Rogers decided to "retire", and spent some of his time traveling on a motorcycle around the world. Since
then he has been a guest professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

In 1989 and 1990, Rogers was the moderator of WCBS' The Dreyfus Roundtable and FNN's The Profit
Motive with Jim Rogers. From 1990 to 1992, he traveled through China again, as well as around the world, on
motorcycle, over 100,000 miles (160,000 km) across six continents, which was picked up in the Guinness Book
of World Records. He tells of his adventures and worldwide investments in Investment Biker.

In 1998, Rogers founded the Rogers International Commodity Index. In 2007, the index and its 3 sub-indices were
linked to exchange-traded notes under the banner ELEMENTS. The notes track the total return of the indices as an
accessible way to invest in the index. Rogers is an outspoken advocate of agriculture investments and, in addition to
the Rogers Commodity Index, is involved with two direct, farmland investment funds - Agrifirma
(http://www.agrifirma.com) (based in Brazil) and Agcapita Farmland Investment Partnership
(http://www.farmlandinvestmentpartnership.com) (based in Canada).

Between January 1, 1999 and January 5, 2002, Rogers did another Guinness World Record journey through 116
countries, covering 245,000 kilometers with his wife, Paige Parker, in a custom-made Mercedes. The trip began in
Iceland, which was about to celebrate the 1000th anniversary of Leif Eriksson's first trip to America. On January 5,
2002, they were back in New York City and their home on Riverside Drive. His route around the world can be
viewed on his website, jimrogers.com (http://www.jimrogers.com) . He wrote Adventure Capitalist following this
around-the-world adventure. It is currently his best selling book.

On his return in 2002, Rogers became a regular guest on Fox News' Cavuto on Business which airs every
Saturday.[6] In 2005, Rogers wrote Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best
Market. In this book, Rogers quotes a Financial Analysts Journal academic paper co-authored by Yale School of
Management professor, Geert Rouwenhorst, entitled Facts and Fantasies about Commodity Futures. Rogers
contends this paper shows that commodities investment is one of the best investments over time, which is a concept
somewhat at odds with conventional investment thinking.

In December 2007, Rogers sold his mansion in New York City for about 16 million USD and moved to Singapore.
Rogers claimed that he moved because now is a ground-breaking time for investment potential in Asian markets.
Rogers' first daughter is now being tutored in Mandarin to prepare her for the future. He is quoted as saying: "If you
were smart in 1807 you moved to London, if you were smart in 1907 you moved to New York City, and if you are
smart in 2007 you move to Asia." In a CNBC interview with Maria Bartiromo broadcast on May 5, 2008, Rogers
said that people in China are extremely motivated and driven, and he wants to be in that type of environment, so his

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daughters are motivated and driven. He also stated that this is how America and Europe used to be. He chose not
to move to Chinese cities like Hong Kong or Shanghai due to the high levels of pollution causing potential health
problems for his family; hence he chose Singapore. He has also advocated investing in certain smaller Asian frontier
markets such as Sri Lanka and Cambodia, and currently serves as an Advisor to Leopard Capital’s Leopard Sri
Lanka Fund. [7] However, he is not fully bullish on all Asian nations, as he remains skeptical of India's future - "India
as we know it will not survive another 30 or 40 years".[8]

Rogers has two daughters with Paige Parker; Happy was born in 2003, and their second daughter Baby Bee in
2008. His latest book, A Gift To My Children, contains lessons in life for his daughters as well as investment advice
and was published in 2009.

Books
1995: Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers. - ISBN 1-55850-529-6
2003: Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip. - ISBN 0375509127
2004: Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market. - ISBN
140006337X
2007: A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market. - ISBN 1400066166
2009: A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons For Life And Investing. - ISBN 1400067545

References
1. ^ a b Vetter, Jason (January 18, 1998). - "Adventurer from Marengo Wanders into the Big Money: Jim Rogers
started out selling peanuts at Little League games, then made a bonanza on Wall Street". - Mobile Register.
2. ^ Adams, David. - "Adventure Capitalist" (http://www.poder360.com/article_detail.php?id_article=4066) . -
PODER Magazine. - April 2010.
3. ^ Drobny, Steven (2006). "11: The Pioneer". Inside the House of Money: Top Hedge Fund Traders on Profiting in
the Global Markets. Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. p. 230. ISBN 978-0471794479.
4. ^ NOTE: The reports of Rogers being born in Demopolis are an incorrect assumption. The Jim Rogers born in
Wetumpka is a different Jim Rogers.
5. ^ "James Rogers" (http://www.streetstories.com/James_Rogers.htm) . streetstories.com. undated.
http://www.streetstories.com/James_Rogers.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-26.
6. ^ Benjamin Scent, "Six more hard years tipped for subprime fallout"
(http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?
pp_cat=11&art_id=57158&sid=16358811&con_type=1&d_str=20071119&sear_year=2007) , The Standard,
November 19, 2007.
7. ^ "Rogers Joins Leopard Capital to Advise on Sri Lanka"
(http://leopardasia.com/PDF/100211115208Rogers_Joins_Leopard_Capital_To_Advise_On_Sri_Lanka.pdf)
FI.alternatives, February 9, 2010.
8. ^ "India" (http://www.jimrogers.com/content/stories/articles/india.html) . - JimRogers.com.

Further reading
Schwager, Jack D. (1993). Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders. Collins; Reissue edition.
ISBN 0887306101.
Train, John (2003). Money Masters of Our Time. Collins; Reprint edition. ISBN 978-0887309700.

External links
The Millennium Adventure (http://www.jimrogers.com/) , Official Jim Rogers website
The Rogers International Commodity Index (http://www.rogersrawmaterials.com/) A site for information on
the RICI

Articles

"An Early Christmas for Jim Rogers"

(http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/dec2004/nf2004128_0319_db035.htm) . - BusinessWeek
- December 8, 2004.
"Invest In Commodities – and Keep Your Shirt" (http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/rogers2.html) . -
November 23, 2006.
"We Want Our Kids To Learn Chinese" (http://www.mysinchew.com/node/13297?tid=14) . - MySinchew.
- July 19, 2008. - (article about Rogers' life in Singapore)
"Adventure Capitalist" (http://www.poder360.com/article_detail.php?id_article=4066) . - PODER
Magazine. - April 2010.

Interviews

Jim Rogers on the British Pound, US Dollar, And China

(http://www.dailymarkets.com/forex/2009/01/15/exclusive-interview-jim-rogers-says-if-he-were-china-he-
would-scale-back-on-buying-us-bonds/)
Jim Rogers, The Adventure Capitalist (http://radio.goldseek.com/archives.php#JimRogers)
Jim Rogers and George Soros Started the Quantum Fund (http://www.turtletrader.com/trader-rogers.html)
rediff.com: The Money Interview/Jim Rogers, investor, globetrotter

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(http://www.rediff.com/money/2001/feb/21inter.htm)
Financial Sense Newshour's Ask The Expert: Jim Rogers:
2003 (http://www.financialsense.com/Experts/2003/Rogers.htm) .
May 6, 2004 (http://www.financialsense.com/Experts/2004/Rogers.html) .
Riverside Conversations: a 3 Part TV Series with Marc Faber
(http://www.vpro.nl/programma/tegenlicht/afleveringen/17628147/items/10449758)
SCMP video interview (http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1772823584/bctid1772821123) ,
September 8, 2008.
Investors Chronicle interview
(http://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/Columnists/GuestColumnists/article/20081117/008775ec-b491-11dd-
9469-00144f2af8e8/The-west-is-finished--Jim-Rogers.jsp) . - (on the decline of the US/Europe, emerging
markets, commodities). - November 2008.
Bloomberg Night Talk interview (http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?
N=av&T=Jim%20Rogers%20Sees%20Dollar%20%60Devalued%2C%27%20Likes%20Commodities&clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vJzshG4o708g.asf)
. - November 24, 2008.
Jim Rogers on The Lew Rockwell Show:
"The Crash of '08" (http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2008-12-
07_079_jim_rogers_on_the_crash_of_08.mp3) . - December 12, 2008. - (*.MP3 audio)
"Economic Advice to My Children (and You)" (http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?
p=episode&name=2009-05-17_123_economic_advice_to_my_children_and_you.mp3) . - May 17,
2009. - (*.MP3 audio)
Bloomberg TV Jim Rogers Special (http://www.bloomberg.com/avp/avp.htm?
clipSRC=mms://media2.bloomberg.com/cache/vpZqGFXZTDlM.asf) . - December 24, 2008.
TIME Q&A: Jim Rogers:
April 28, 2009 (http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1894294,00.html) .
October 31, 2008 (http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1855667,00.html) .
Interview from March 2009 on (http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1184614595?
bctid=14510970001) Channel 4
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