James Beeland Rogers, Jr. is definitely an American trader and chairman of Rogers Holdings and Beeland Interests, Inc. He is also an creator, economic commentator and has long been often featured in Time, The Washington Publish, The new York Moments, Barron's, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Economic Moments, and most publications addressing the economy or finance. Jim Rogers was the co-founder from the Quantum Fund with George Soros and creator in the Rogers Worldwide Commodities Index (RICI). He isn't going to consider himself a member of any school of financial considered, but has acknowledged that his views very best match the label of Austrian University 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 with the first 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 may be a guest professor of finance in the Columbia Business University.

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.

On his return in 2002, Rogers became a regular guest on Fox News' Cavuto on Company and other financial TV shows. In 2002, Rogers said that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan's "reaction to the stock-market bubble has caused two more bubbles to grow: a real-estate bubble and a consumer-debt bubble." In 2006, Rogers said he was shorting US financial, home builders and Fannie Mae. In 2005, Rogers wrote Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Finest Market. In this book, Rogers quotes a Money Analysts Journal academic paper co-authored by Yale Faculty of Management professor, Geert Rouwenhorst, entitled Facts and Fantasies about Commodity Futures. Rogers contends this paper shows that commodities investment is one with the most effective investments over time, which is a concept somewhat at odds with conventional investment thinking.

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 monetary 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 started 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 greatest and most liquid companies go into the index.

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