Jim Rogers

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

February 2, 2005

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In Hot Commodities, Jim Rogers offers the lowdown on the most lucrative markets for today and tomorrow. In late 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." In language that is both colorful and accessible, 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.

Financial Sense University students have already been treated to his outstanding video, Riverside Conversations. If you haven't seen and heard it, you're in for a thought-provoking experience. His dinner guests, Marc Faber and Daniel Yergin explore global markets today and into the future. FSO has provided a transcript as well. Riverside Conversations, Part 2 "The Future of Europe" with Jim Rogers, Marc Faber & Antony Burgmans. Riverside Conversations, Episode 3: The Sale of Georgia available April 2005.

Jim Rogers is an investor who has been chronicled in Jon Train’s Money Masters of Our Time, Jack Schwager’s Market Wizards, and other books. He has been frequently featured in Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and most publications dealing with the economy or finance. He has also appeared as a regular commentator and columnist in various media and has been a visiting professor at Columbia University.

After apprenticing with Arnhold and S. Blichroeder in the early 1970s. Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained more than 4000%, while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37. However, he didn’t remain idle.

Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers 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’. At the same time, he was laying the groundwork for an around-the-world motorcycle trip.

In 1990-1992, Rogers fulfilled his lifelong dream: with a companion motorcycling 65,065 miles across six continents, a feat that landed them in the Guinness Book of World Records. As a private investor, he constantly analyzed the countries through which he traveled for investment ideas. He chronicled his one-of-a-kind journey in Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers. Rogers showed one nation after the next in which gradually weakening currencies and political structures have suddenly collapsed, resulting in total national ruin. He gets to the heart of what’s driving successful nations and economies upward and what’s slashing troubled ones downward.

Past Interviews

June 5, 2004 The Bull Market in Raw Materials

Riverside Conversations, Part 2, May 31, 2004
The Future of Europe with Jim Rogers, Marc Faber & Antony Burgmans

September 6, 2003 The Long-Term Bull Market in Commodities: FSN Roundtable with Jim and Dr. Marc Faber

Adventure Capitalist: Around the World With Jim Rogers, May 17, 2003

Riverside Conversations 2003 with Jim Rogers, Marc Faber & Daniel Yergin

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