James Beeland Rogers, Jr. is surely an American buyer and chairman of Rogers Holdings and Beeland Interests, Inc. He is also an author, economic commentator and continues to be usually featured in Time, The Washington Submit, The new York Moments, Barron's, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Avenue Journal, The Fiscal Situations, and most publications managing the financial system or finance. Jim Rogers was the co-founder with the Quantum Fund with George Soros and creator on the Rogers Worldwide Commodities Index (RICI). He doesn't look at himself a member of any faculty of financial imagined, but has acknowledged that his views most effective fit the label of Austrian Faculty of economics.
In 1970, Rogers joined Arnhold and S. Bleichroder and 3 years later he co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros. During the following 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200% while the S&P advanced about 47%. The Quantum Fund was one on the to begin with truly global funds. In 1980, Rogers decided to "retire", and spent some of his time traveling on a motorcycle around the world. Since then, he continues to be a guest professor of finance with the Columbia Organization College.
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 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, a bestselling investment book.
In 1998, Rogers founded the Rogers Global Commodity Index. In 2007, the index and its three sub-indices were linked to exchange-traded notes under the banner ELEMENTS. The notes track the total return of your indices as an accessible way to invest in the index. Rogers is surely an outspoken advocate of agriculture investments.
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 1st trip to America. On January 5, 2002, they were back in New york City and their home on Riverside Drive. He wrote Adventure Capitalist following this around-the-world adventure. It is currently his bestselling book.
Rogers has two daughters with Paige Parker. Hilton Augusta (nicknamed Happy) was born in 2003, and their second daughter Beeland Anderson 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. On November 4, 2010, speaking at Oxford University's Balliol College, Rogers urged students to scrap career plans for Wall Road or the City, London's monetary district, and to study agriculture and mining instead. "The power is shifting again from the fiscal centers to the producers of real goods. The place to be is in commodities, raw materials, natural resources."
In February 2011 Rogers announced that he has commenced a new index fund which focuses on "the top companies in agriculture, mining, metals and energy sectors as well as those in the alternative energy space including solar, wind and hydro."The index is called The Rogers Global Resources Equity Index and according to Rogers, only the best and many liquid companies go into the index.