Jim Rogers is an internationally recognized business author and financial commentator with a passion for travelling the world in search of sound investment strategies.
After fulfilling his lifelong dream of motorcycling 100,000 miles across six continents, a feat that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records, Rogers chronicled his one-of-a-kind journey in “Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers.”
In 1999, the Demopolis, Ala. native embarked on a Millennium Adventure, travelling the world for three years and obtaining his third Guinness listing. That 245,000-kilometer trip took him through 116 countries as recounted in his book, “Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip.”
As a private investor, Rogers constantly analyzed the countries through which he traveled for investment ideas. He has been featured in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, and Time magazine. He also appears a regular commentator and columnist in various media, and has been a professor at Columbia University.
After attending Yale University and Oxford University, Rogers cofounded the Quantum Fund, a global investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4,200 percent as the S&P 500 rose less than 50 percent. Rogers then decided to retire at age 37.
Continuing to manage his own portfolio, he kept busy serving as a professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and, in 1989 and 1990, as the moderator of WCBS’s “The Dreyfus Roundtable” and FNN’s “The Profit Motive with Jim Rogers.” Rogers’ book “Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably In The World’s Best Market” was published in 2004. He also authored “A Bull in China,” which describes Rogers’ experiences, as well as the changes and opportunities in that market. He recently published his latest book, “A Gift to My Children.”
