My Take
Jim Rogers is one of those rare investors who makes you feel like the whole financial world is just one big adventure waiting to be explored. He co-founded the Quantum Fund with George Soros in the early 1970s, and by the time he retired from that partnership he had already racked up returns that most fund managers can only dream about. What I genuinely admire is that he didn't just sit in a Manhattan office running numbers — he literally motorcycled around the world twice and wrote books about what he saw, turning boots-on-the-ground curiosity into investment thesis. His long-running bullishness on commodities and China when almost nobody was paying attention turned out to be prescient. Now living in Singapore, still beating the drum for Asia's rise, still writing, still talking — at over 80 he's proof that the best investors never really retire, they just find bigger maps to study.
Overview
James Beeland Rogers Jr. (born October 19, 1942) is an American investor and financial commentator based in Singapore. He is the chairman of Beeland Interests, Inc. He was the co-founder of the Quantum Fund and Soros Fund Management. He was also the creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI).
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Jim Rogers
- Name (Japanese)
- ジム・ロジャーズ
- Reading
- じむ・ろじゃーず
- Born
- October 19, 1942 (age 83)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Libra / Horse
- Origin
- Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- entrepreneur / financier / non-fiction writer / economist / businessperson
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Balliol College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://www.jimrogers.com/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.