Jim Rogers on his Investing style and how he developed it

Jim Rogers : Some of those things are in fact true but if I find a bottom-up investment or any way I find an investment, I'm happy to pursue it. If I see a company doing good things, I can very well start at the bottom and work my way up.

How long did this take? It didn't take me too long to figure out that many people didn't have a clue what they were doing in the investment world. It was hit and miss, so I stopped listening to other people and started doing my own research and investments.

People say contrarian - well, if you find something that's cheap, it usually means not many people are paying attention to it, that is why it is cheap.

If that makes me a contrarian, I'm quite happy to be contrarian.

My approach is that I usually like to find things that are cheap, where there's a positive change taking place, then I do my research and make my investment. I would say I started having my own style by the time I was 28. - in straitstimes









Jim Rogers started trading the stock market with $600 in 1968.In 1973 he formed the Quantum Fund with the legendary investor George Soros before retiring, a multi millionaire at the age of 37. Rogers and Soros helped steer the fund to a miraculous 4,200% return over the 10 year span of the fund while the S&P 500 returned just 47%.