Jim Rogers grew up in Alabama and started out in business, aged six, selling peanuts and soft drinks at baseball games. He was educated at Yale and Balliol College, Oxford. After he co-founded the Quantum fund in 1970, the fund surged by 4,200% over the next decade, while the Standard & Poor’s index rose by 47%. Having earned enough money to “retire” at the age of 37, Rogers has since worked as a professor of finance at Columbia University, columnist, author, and a contrarian investor. In the early 1990s he traveled 100,000 miles through six continents on a BMW motorcycle and ended up with a portfolio of investments in some of the world’s most unexpected markets. In 1998 Rogers became bullish about commodities, predicting an enduring commodities rally and later launched the Rogers International Commodities Index.

Believing that the future belongs to Asia, he sold his mansion house in New York’s Riverside Avenue in 2007 and now lives in Singapore, partly so that his two young daughters can learn Mandarin.

Jim Rogers will be speaking Live in London at the Global Financial Trading Day March 19th 2010 for details please click here