Tembusu College Master’s Tea

Mr Jim Rogers

3pm, Thursday

24th October 2013

Master’s Common Lounge,

Level 3, Residential Block

Refreshments will be served.

Only 30 seats available!

Please sign up at tembusu.nus.edu.sg

Jim Rogers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, is an author, financial commentator, adventurer, and successful international investor. He has been frequently featured in Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Barron’s Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, The Business Times, The Straits Times and many media outlets worldwide. He has also appeared as a regular commentator and columnist in various media and has been a professor at Columbia University. After attending Yale and Oxford University, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next 10 years, the portfolio gained 4200% while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37 Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers kept busy serving as a full professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and, in 1989 and 1990, as the moderator of WCBS’s ‘The Dreyfus Roundtable’ and FNN’s ‘The Profit Motive with Jim Rogers’.

Between 1990 and 1999, Rogers broke the Guinness Book of World Records three times by motorcycling across six continents and travelling for 3 years round-the-world passing through 116 countries. He chronicled his journeys in Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers and Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip. His other books include Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably In The World’s Best Market, A Bull in China and more recently Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets.