| Jim Rogers and Jim Rogers Funds have became | | | | It's worth anyone's time to check into the various |
| well known through his co-founding of the wildly | | | | Jim Rogers funds, as he, possibly more than |
| successful Quantum Fund with George Soros. | | | | anyone alive, understands and follows the |
| Since that time, he has traveled the world, and is | | | | commodity markets accurately. |
| focusing almost entirely on the commodity sector | | | | One thing I do like about the agricultural index |
| for probably the rest of his life. | | | | fund is there's almost a surety food consumption |
| Some of the investment vehicles he's created | | | | in China will increase for a long time into the |
| since then are the Rogers International | | | | future, that makes China the bellwhether for food |
| Commodities Index, Agrifirma - (based in Brazil), | | | | prices, because how China goes in reference to |
| Agcapita Farmland Investment Partnership (based | | | | food prices, so will go the rest of the world. |
| in Canada) and most recently the Macquarie and | | | | Like anything else, with commodities we do need |
| Rogers China Agriculture Index, based in Australia. | | | | to do enough research to have at minimum a |
| Jim Rogers feels that in the years ahead, because | | | | basic understanding of where things are trending. |
| of the obvious and very predictable demand for | | | | With that in mind, it's a good idea to check out |
| food, that agriculture is going to be one of the | | | | the various Jim Rogers' funds, and determine their |
| most profitable investment sectors; and probably | | | | track record and what their particular focus is. |
| the most profitable, the reason he and Macquarie | | | | Rogers does put his money where his mouth is, |
| got together to create the Macquarie and Rogers | | | | as he recently said he invests his money in the |
| China Agriculture Index, which measures actual - | | | | funds he operates or has a hand in. That's more |
| rather than projected - food consumption of the | | | | than a lot of people suggesting investments can |
| Chinese people. | | | | say, as many of them just try to get people to |
| According to Rogers, it won't be bankers and | | | | trade in order to make money on commissions. |
| investment advisors that will be the wealthy going | | | | Anyway, I recommend doing some research on |
| forward, but it'll be those who get into and invest | | | | the Jim Rogers funds, and commodities in general, |
| in - farming. | | | | and look at the way the world is trending. There's |
| Rogers also moved his family to Singapore, saying | | | | no doubt many natural resources and agricultural |
| Asia is where the action will be, and he wants his | | | | goods will be increasing in demand and prices going |
| young daughter to flourish and be challenged by | | | | forward, and those preparing for and positioning |
| learning Mandarin (which she speaks fluently) and | | | | themselves in the sector will do great in their |
| partaking in the increasingly robust Asian | | | | investments. |
| economy. | | | | |