Jim Rogers Biography

Jim Rogers has been a successful hedge fund manager, investor, traveler, writer, and regular media commentator.

In the 1970s Jim Rogers co-found the Quantum Fund, a private investment partnership which invested in numerous investment vehicles, including commodity futures, and experienced superior returns over 10 years, leading to his "retirement" before age 40.

Rogers has been chronicled in John Train's Money Masters of Our Time, Jack Schwager's Market Wizards, and other books. He is the successful author of A Gift to My Children (2009), A Bull in China (2007), Hot Commodities (2004), Adventure Capitalist (2003), and Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers (1995).

Although Mr. Rogers' career spans over 40 years, during the last 27 years he has been semi-retired and traveling extensively around the world. During that period, he has been a regular commentator and columnist in various television and print media dealing with economic and world affairs; and is an occasional Visiting Professor at Columbia University.

Jim Rogers is the founder of the Rogers International Commodities Index® (RICI®).