James Beeland Rogers

Considering the success stories of various odious figures in the world of trading, we forget about those people who helped them rise to the top of Olympus.

James Beeland Rogers is a major financier, international investor and co-founder of the famous international investment fund Quantum.

Yes, precisely that “Quantum” thanks to which the whole world learned about such a person as George Soros.

James is also known for his world records and wonderful books that motivate motivated people to invest and provide instructive advice to avoid mistakes that the author himself encountered. 

The beauty of his books is that they are written in accessible language, and their author is not just a writer, but really a trader and investor who has shown through his life experience that anything can be achieved.

Life story.

James himself was born in 1942 in the town of Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America. He spent his childhood in the town of Demopolis, Alabama. Initially, James was very interested in history, so he studied at Yale University in the history department.

However, as a student, he decides to enter Oxford, where he begins to study in depth the world of finance, political science, and philosophy.

In 1970, he got a job at the largest investment bank Arnhold and S. Bleichroder, where he successfully leads his career. At that time, George Soros also worked at the same bank, so their acquaintance became simply inevitable. Feeling their potential, future investment legends decide to create their first hedge fund, Quantum.

It was after the creation of Quantum that both George Soros and James Rogers experienced phenomenal success. Moreover, the success was supported by huge indicators; for example, Quantum over the ten years of its operation showed an increase of 4200 percent, when the S&P index grew by only 48 percent over the same period of time.

1980 was a turning point in James' life, as he decided to leave the Quantum Foundation. Since then, his investment activities have been carried out purely on earned capital.

Since he has a lot of free time, he began teaching at Columbia University Graduate School of Business and believe me, his lectures were very popular. James also began to get involved in media products, namely speaking on various business channels and hosting his own programs.

Hobbies and Success.

In 1990, James Rogers became the official record holder of the Guinness Book of Records, as he managed to travel 160 thousand kilometers across 52 different countries on his motorcycle.

Thanks to this trip, James got to know many countries from the inside, so various investment ideas were formed not on general information, but on various meetings and facts he saw with his own eyes. This trip inspired him so much that at the end of the tour he wrote the book “Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers.”

In 1998, James Rogers created his first commodity index, called the Rogers International Commodities Index. Literally a year later, Rogers decided to repeat his journey, however, not on a motorcycle, but on a car specially modified for him, together with his wife.

His journey lasted for three years, during which he covered a distance of 240 thousand kilometers and traveled to 116 different countries around the world.

Upon arrival, he wrote another book entitled “A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market,” and his trick was again entered into the Guinness Book of Records.

In 2004, he published an interesting investment book entitled “Commodity Exchanges. The hottest markets in the world. How anyone can invest and make a profit." After all his travels, James Beeland Rogers becomes an active investor in the Asian space, and very ardently convinces everyone that the Asian markets are the future.

Therefore, in 2007, he and his family moved from New York to Singapore. In 2012, he launched a new index called the Rogers Global Resources Equity Index, which unites the most advanced companies in various promising sectors of the economy.

James Beeland Rogers argued in every interview that the future lies in the development of industries that produce natural products. That's why he says with a grin that in the future it will be farmers who drive Lamborghinis, not Wall Street financiers.

He also sees excellent opportunities for the growth of the Russian economy in the near future, and unlike George Soros, he is actively investing in various industries in the Russian Federation.