James Beeland Rogers, famously recognized as Jim Rogers, is a Singapore-based business magnate. Apart from being a brilliant investor, he is also an author and financial commentator.
Jim graduated from Yale University and completed BA in philosophy, politics and economics from the University of Oxford in 1960s.
In the latter half of the 1960s, he joined investment bank Arnhold and S Bleichroder. Here, he met his future collaborator, George Soros. Both, Rogers and Soros left the bank 3 years later and founded an investment management company - the Quantum fund.
Jim Rogers is known for his expertise in commodity investment. In 1998, Jim Rogers founded the Roger International Commodity Index.
Over his long and successful career, he has penned down dozens of books, including ‘Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market’ and ‘A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market’.
Rogers also has a knack in teaching, and he has served as a professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
To know more about how to invest in times of inflation and war, check out, Equitymaster’s investor hour podcast with Jim Rogers.
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