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Description of Adventure Capitalist

"My success in the market has been predicated on viewing the world from a different perspective."
- Jim Rogers, "the Indiana Jones of finance", Time magazine

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Title Information

ISBN:

9780470863206

Pages:

368 pages

Format:

Paperback

Product Code:

16123

Publisher:

John Wiley & Sons Ltd

Published:

17/06/2003

Edition:

1st Edition

Financial Guru Reviews

Like Peter Lynch, Rogers is of that rarest of breeds: a successful fund manger. Some would say they both had the sense to quit while they were ahead. Lynch chose to spend more time with his family and Rogers set off round the World, first on a motorbike and then in a yellow Mercedes sports car perched on the carcass of a Toyota Landcruiser. Since he likes to invest "where there is blood on the streets" you are assured of thrills. High adventure meets high finance. You could not make it up, which is why it is so good.
Richard Beddard

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About Jim Rogers

Born in 1942, Jim Rogers had his first job at age five, picking up bottles at baseball games. Winning a scholarship to Yale, Rogers was coxswain on the crew. Upon graduation, he attended Balliol College at Oxford. After a stint in the army, he began work on Wall Street. He cofounded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next ten years, the portfolio gained more than 4,000 percent, while the S&P rose less than 50 percent. Rogers then decided to retire - at age thirty-seven - but he did not remain idle.

Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers served as a professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business and as moderator of The Dreyfus Roundtable on WCBS and The Profit Motive on FNN. At the same time, he laid the groundwork for his lifelong dream, an around-the-world motorcycle trip: more than 100,000 miles across six continents. That journey became the subject of Rogers's first book, Investment Biker (1994), available from John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. While laying plans for his Millennium Adventure 1999-2001, he continued as a media commentator at Worth, CNBC, et al., and as a sometime professor. He now contributes to Fox News and others as he and Paige eagerly await their first child. He can be reached at www.jimrogers.com

Contents of Adventure Capitalist

Part One: 1999

1. A Yellow Mercedes
2. Young Turks
3. The Coming Catastrophe of Central Asia
4. The Best Capitalists Are in Communist China
5. A New Asian Crisis: A Shortage of Girls
6. Digital Mongolia
7. The Wedding

Part Two: 2000

8. Into Africa
9. My Broker in Ghana
10. Whirling Dervishes
11. Arabian Nights. part three: 2001
12. Sixty Million of Us Wash Away Our Sins
13. The Road from Mandalay
14. Playing Detective in La Paz
15. My Father's Grave
16. Home Again

Appendix
Index