American investor and market commentator Jim Rogers, co-founder of the Quantum Fund, will impart his investment strategies including those in commodities, when he speaks at CIMB Private Banking's Investment Conference 2010 here on July 7.
In a statement on Sunday, June 13, CIMB Private Banking said Rogers, who is also a college professor, author of several investment books and creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI), would about "Southeast Asia in focus, 2010 and beyond", the theme of the one-day investment conference.
It said the theme reflected Asia's feat of being first to rebound from the global financial crisis, with Malaysia being one of several countries in the region to record a steep jump in economic growth, far outstripping Europe and North America.
The conference will also feature four other financial experts, with the opening address being delivered by Datuk Seri Nazir Razak, group chief executive of CIMB Group.
CIMB Private Banking said Rogers showed an early entrepreneurial streak, having started his own business at the age of five selling peanuts and picking up empty bottles that fans left behind at baseball games.
He got his first job on Wall Street after graduating from Yale University in 1964 and a second degree from Oxford University in 1966.
CIMB Private Banking said Rogers' Asia-centric investments made him uproot his business and family from America to Singapore, saying, "Southeast Asia with its natural resources and population, will be one of the growth areas of the next couple of decades. That is one reason I sold my house in New York and moved here."
His books include Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World's Best Market and A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World’s Greatest Market.
Written by The Edge Financial Daily
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