Jim Rogers

Jim Rogers studied history at Yale University and philosophy, politics, and economics at Balliol College, Oxford. In 1970 he co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros, and together they managed the fund for the next decade, generating returns of approximately 4,200% from 1970 to 1980 — compared to about 47% for the S&P 500. The fund's success was built on macro analysis, commodity positions during the inflationary 1970s, and early identification of emerging market opportunities. Rogers retired in 1980 at age 37. In the following years he travelled the world by motorcycle twice — across six continents — observing economic conditions on the ground and making investments based on his travel observations. He wrote "Investment Biker" (1994) and "Adventure Capitalist" (2003) documenting these journeys. Rogers was one of the earliest and most vocal proponents of a commodity supercycle in the late 1990s, when commodities were deeply out of favour, and created the Rogers International Commodities Index. He has been a long-term bull on China and Asian markets, famously relocating to Singapore in 2007 to position his family for what he saw as the Asian Century. He has written multiple investment books and is known for contrarian views, frequently expressed in media appearances — though his timing on specific calls has been mixed.