Jim Rogers is an author, financial commentator, adventurer, and successful international investor.
After attending Yale and Oxford University, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200%, while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37, continuing to manage his own portfolio.
In 1990-1992, Rogers fulfilled his lifelong dream: motorcycling 100,000 miles across six continents, a feat that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. He constantly analyzed the countries through which he traveled for investment ideas, chronicled his one-of-a-kind journey in Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers. Jim also embarked on a Millennium Adventure in 1999. He traveled for 3 years on his round-the-world, Guinness World Record journey. Passing through 116 countries, he covered more than 245,000 kilometers, which he recounted in his book Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip. His books Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably In The World's Best Market, A Bull in China, A Gift to My Children, Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets are also very popular in the world.
