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Jim Rogers
Co-founder of the Quantum Fund | Iconic Global Investor | Creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index | Bestselling Author
Speaker Jim Rogers is one of the most recognizable names in global investing, co-founder of the Quantum Fund with George Soros and creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index. From Singapore he gives audiences a contrarian, long-cycle read on debt, commodities, currencies, and the shift of economic power to Asia. Asset managers and corporate boards book him for the blunt market call sell-side research won't deliver.
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Jim Rogers biography
Speaker Jim Rogers is one of the most recognizable names in global investing, a co-founder of the Quantum Fund alongside George Soros, the creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI), and the bestselling author behind Investment Biker, Adventure Capitalist, and Hot Commodities. Now based in Singapore, where he relocated his family in 2007 to give his children a front-row seat to the rise of Asia, Rogers is one of the few investors who helped shape modern hedge funds and continues to influence how leaders think about commodities, currencies, and country risk today.
His track record is legendary. From 1973 to 1980 the Quantum Fund portfolio gained roughly 4,200% while the S&P 500 returned about 47%, putting Rogers in the conversation with the very best investors of his generation. He retired from active money management at 37, joined Columbia Business School as a finance professor, and turned to public commentary, contributing regular columns and on-camera analysis to outlets including Time, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, Barron’s, and The Financial Times.
The Adventure Capitalist Philosophy
Between 1990 and 1992 Rogers motorcycled more than 100,000 miles across six continents, earning a Guinness World Record and the material for Investment Biker. A decade later he set out again, this time by custom Mercedes, covering 245,000 kilometers across 116 countries for the Millennium Adventure documented in Adventure Capitalist. The thesis behind those journeys, that you cannot understand a market until you have walked its streets, still defines his approach. He has continued to publish, including A Bull in China, A Gift to My Children, and his memoir Street Smarts, and remains active through his own platform.
As a speaker, Jim Rogers gives audiences the contrarian view they rarely hear from sell-side desks: blunt assessments of where debt cycles are heading, why commodities still belong in a portfolio, and how the center of economic gravity is shifting east. His keynotes are a favorite of asset managers, family offices, and corporate boards looking for a long-cycle perspective on global markets and finance.
Jim Rogers Speaking Videos
Jim Rogers - This Is Why He Bought Silver
Jim Rogers - My New Favorite Country to Invest
Jim Rogers Keynote Topics
Long before satellite data and AI screens, Jim Rogers analyzed markets the hard way, by traveling 100,000 miles across six continents on a motorcycle. In this keynote he distills the investment lessons of that Guinness World Record journey, showing how on-the-ground observation still beats screen-time, why frontier markets matter, and how leaders should think about country risk in an era of fragmented globalization.
Rogers spent three years driving 245,000 kilometers through 116 countries to write Adventure Capitalist, and he uses that experience to upend the assumptions most asset allocators bring to international investing. Audiences leave with a clear framework for evaluating emerging and frontier opportunities, identifying capital controls and currency mispricing, and stress-testing their portfolios against the kind of shocks that only show up off the beaten path.
Commodities have been the engine of every major bull market in the past century, yet most institutional portfolios remain dramatically underweight. Drawing on Hot Commodities and decades of trading raw materials, Jim Rogers walks audiences through the supply-and-demand setup he sees today across agriculture, energy, and precious metals, and explains how to position for a multi-decade bull cycle in real assets.
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FAQs on Booking Jim Rogers
Why Jim Rogers?
Few keynote speakers have actually built and lived the playbook they teach. As co-founder of the Quantum Fund, Jim Rogers helped deliver returns of roughly 4,200% in the 1970s while the broader market barely moved, and he has spent the four decades since traveling, teaching at Columbia Business School, writing five bestselling books, and giving audiences the kind of long-cycle, contrarian view that rarely makes it onto a CNBC ticker. He is direct, witty, and famously blunt on stage, qualities that resonate with asset managers, family offices, and board-level audiences. Book Jim Rogers through Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring one of the most original voices in global investing to your event.
Who is Jim Rogers and what is he known for?
Jim Rogers is an American investor, author, and financial commentator best known for co-founding the Quantum Fund with George Soros in 1973. The fund produced returns of roughly 4,200% over its first decade, well ahead of the S&P 500. After retiring from active management in 1980, Rogers went on to motorcycle around the world, become a professor at Columbia Business School, create the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI), and write bestselling books including Investment Biker, Adventure Capitalist, Hot Commodities, A Bull in China, and Street Smarts. He is widely regarded as one of the foundational figures of modern hedge funds and a leading voice on commodities and Asian markets.
What is Jim Rogers' investment philosophy?
Jim Rogers is a long-cycle, contrarian investor who pays as much attention to politics, demographics, and debt as he does to earnings. He looks for asset classes that are unloved, undersupplied, and structurally cheap, which has led him to commodities, certain Asian markets, agriculture, and precious metals at various points. He is famously cautious about debt accumulation in developed economies, holds large positions in cash and hard assets when he believes risk is mispriced, and has been a long-standing bull on the long-term importance of China and the wider Asian region.
What audiences book Jim Rogers as a keynote speaker?
Jim Rogers is booked by hedge funds, private banks, family offices, asset managers, sovereign wealth funds, corporate boards, and investment conferences around the world. His talks work equally well as a headline keynote at a global investing summit, an off-the-record dinner for ultra-high-net-worth clients, or a board-level briefing on macroeconomic risk. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring Jim Rogers to your next event.
How to book Jim Rogers as a keynote speaker?
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How much is Jim Rogers speaking fee?
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Can I book Jim Rogers for a virtual keynote?
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