Jim Rogers

Jim Rogers is one of North America's most acclaimed and successful financial experts – but certainly not the most typical expert on Wall Street. After graduating from Yale and Oxford Universities and managing the Quantum Fund in the 1970's, Jim Rogers retired at the age of 37. In 1990, Rogers embarked on a two-year trip around the world on his bike to learn about the world's developing countries and investment markets first hand. Investment Biker is the story of this extraordinary trip and the businessmen, bankers, investors and local citizens that he spoke to along the way to get a better sense of each country's infrastructure and investment possibilities.

More recently, Rogers embarked in a one-of-a-kind Mercedes Benz on a new adventure to chronicle the world during the turn of the Millennium 1999-2001. Rogers writes about his amazing travels and discoveries in Adventure Capitalist: How I Drove Around the World for Three Years in a Yellow Mercedes, Visited 116 Countries, Invested Globally, Set a Guinness World Record, and Ate an Iguana, which was published in Spring 2003. His latest book, A Gift to My Children: A Father's Lessons for Life and Investing, was published in April 2009.

Bringing these journeys to life at the lecture podium, Rogers offers audiences a lively, ground-level analysis of tomorrow's economic gold mines, while thrilling them with stories of his exciting adventures. He mixes wit with sometimes contrarian wisdom that offers new and enlightened ways to view our world.

• Finance And The Emerging World Economy

• Adventure Capitalist: On The Road With Jim Rogers

• Political, Social and Economic Observations From A Record-Breaking Drive Around The World

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  April 2009

  A Gift to My Children

  In A Gift to My Children, Jim Rogers offers advice with his trademark candor and confidence, but this time around he adds paternal compassion, protectiveness, and love. Rogers reveals how to learn from his triumphs and mistakes in order to achieve a prosperous, well-lived life. Wise and warm, accessible and inspiring, A Gift to My Children is a great gift for all those just starting to invest in their futures.

  
  
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  December 2007

  A Bull in China

  If the twentieth century was the American century, then the twenty-first century belongs to China. Now Jim Rogers shows how any investor can get in on the ground floor of “the greatest economic boom since England’s Industrial Revolution.” In this indispensable new book, one of the world’s most successful investors, Jim Rogers, brings his unerring investment acumen to bear on this huge and unruly land now being opened to the world and exploding in potential. A Bull in China also features fascinating profiles of “Red Chip” companies, such as Yantu Changyu, China’s largest winemaker, which sells a “Healthy Liquor” line mixed with herbal medicines. Plus, if you want to export something to China yourself–or even buy land there–Rogers tells you the steps you need to take.

  
  
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  March 2007

  Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market

  In Hot Commodities, Rogers offers the lowdown on the most lucrative markets for today and tomorrow. In 1998, gliding under the radar, a bull market in commodities began. Rogers thinks it's going to continue for at least fifteen years-and he's put his money where his mouth is: In 1998, he started his own commodities index fund. It's up 165% since then, with more than $200 million invested, and it's the single-best performing index fund in the world in any asset class. Less risky than stocks and less sluggish than bonds,, commodities are where the money is-and will be in the years ahead. Rogers's strategies are simple and straightforward. You can start small-a few thousand dollars will suffice. It's all about putting your money into stuff you understand, the basic materials of everyday life, like coal, sugar, cotton, corn, or crude oil. Once you recognize the cyclical and historical trading patterns outlined here, you'll be on your way.  In language that is both colorful and accessible, but Rogers explains why the world of commodity investing can be one of the simplest of all-and how commodities are the bases by which investors can value companies, markets, and whole economies. To be a truly great investor is to know something about commodities.
  

  
  
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  December 2004

  Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip

  The bestselling author of Investment Biker is back from the ultimate road trip: a three-year drive around the world that would ultimately set the Guinness record for the longest continuous car journey. In Adventure Capitalist, legendary investor Jim Rogers, dubbed "the Indiana Jones of finance" by Time magazine, proves that the best way to profit from the global situation is to see the world mile by mile. "While I have never patronized a prostitute," he writes, "I know that one can learn more about a country from speaking to the madam of a brothel or a black marketeer than from meeting a foreign minister."

  
  
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  April 2003

  Investment Biker

  Legendary investor Jim Rogers gives us his view of the world on a twenty-two-month, fifty-two-country motorcycle odyssey in his bestselling business/adventure book, Investment Biker, which has already sold more than 200,000 copies.  Before you invest another dollar anywhere in the world (including the United States), read this book by the man Time magazine calls "the Indiana Jones of finance." Jim Rogers became a Wall Street legend when he co-founded the Quantum Fund. Investment Biker is the fascinating story of Rogers's global motorcycle journey/investing trip, with hardheaded advice on the current state and future direction of international economies that will guide and inspire investors interested in foreign markets.

  
  
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