George Soros is known for the unmatched success of his Quantum Fund. A hedge fund guru, he is recognized for having the best performance record of any investment fund in the world over its 26-year history. A mere $1000 invested in 1969 when Soros established the Quantum Fund would have been worth $4 million by the year 2000. During that time he achieved a cumulative 32% annual return.
Investing Philosophy:
His basic theory of investing is that financial markets are chaotic. The prices of stocks, bonds and currencies depend on the human beings who buy and sell them, and those traders often act out of highly emotional reactions rather than coolly logical calculations. Opportunities can be found by carefully studying the value and the market prices of assets. He focuses on a theory of “reflexivity,” which is based on the premise that individual investor biases affect market transactions and the economy.
George Soros says the world needs to build on the efforts of President Barack Obama and create a new global bank regulatory system. He states that the large banks all have implicit guarantee from the governments so none should claim they do not have the benefit of such. The regulatory system has to be global because otherwise you will have “regulatory arbitrage”. More...
Investment Guru George Soros discusses the economic recovery and President Obama's proposals for the banking industry, with CNBC's Maria Bartiromo. More...
(FT) Soros Fund Management, billionaire investor George Soros' investment company, is setting up an office in Hong Kong to take advantage of the region's growth, according to a person familiar with the matter. More...
(GuruFocus, December 14, 2009) Investment Gurus that we follow come from many backgrounds. Although we continue to celebrate Ben Graham and Warren Buffett kind of value investing, users often find Gurus likes George Soros and Ken Heebner, who take large and frequent bets, in and out of positions with very high profile. Lately we added Stanley Druckenmiller, who in 1992, worked for George Soros and contributed to the deed of “beaking the Bank of England” and made a $1.0 billion for the firm. More...
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Billionaire investor George Soros talks about his proposal that the richest nations use $100 billion in International Monetary Fund Special Drawing Rights to develop emissions-reducing projects in poor countries. Soros speaks with Bloomberg's Ryan Chilcote in Copenhagen. More...
(GuruFocus, December 7, 2009) George Soros continues to hold a large percentage of Oil and as companies at the end of September 30, 2009. Here is the sector allocation of his equity portfolio:
(GuruFocus, December 6, 2009) Two of the greatest investors of our time, George Soros and Warren Buffett, both make money for themselves and for the folks investing with them. But they win by deploying different strategy. Buffett buys good stocks managed by good people at good price, and patiently wait for the stock price to reach its intrinsic value, then he might sell. In the latest years, he is not that much of a seller even because he typically finds himself concentrated on too much of a stock. If he starts to sell, the street is bound to hear about it and that might destroy the stock price all together. More...
George Soros has high turnovers in his portfolio. But he is in buying mode. He bought a lot of stocks in the third quarter, sold just a handful. These are details of his buys and sells in the third quarter. More...
It's that time of quarter - when the whales of investing have to reveal what they are doing on the long side to the SEC (they can still keep secret their shorts). There are a lot of websites that will be looking at these disclosures in the next 48 hours so we'll just focus on a few. When I did some "Googling" on George Soros last night I was taken aback how controversial a figure this guy is; there are more stories about his politics than investing. I could care less about his politics, he is a smart guy who uhhh... admittedly plays the gray side of the rule book at times, but Goldman Sachs (GS) is worshiped for the same behavior. More...
(GuruFocus, November 2, 2009) Via FT - George Soros unveils his latest thinking on economics and politics during a lecture series hosted by the Central European University (CEU) from Oct 26-30, 2009. More...
George Soros is a hedge fund guru, known for stellar success of his Quantum Fund. A mere $1000 invested in 1969 when Soros established the Quantum Fund would have been worth $4 million by the year 2000. During that time he achieved an average 32% annual return. We like to track Soros because of his macro-sense of world economy. More...
The philosophy that has helped me both in making money as a hedge fund manager and in spending it as a policy oriented philanthropist is not about money but about the complicated relationship between thinking and reality. The crash of 2008 has convinced me that it provides a valuable insight into the workings of the financial markets. More...
Chrystia Freeland, US managing editor, interviewed George Soros, the fund manager, about the state of the world economy, relations between the US and China, his investment performance and regulating bankers’ compensation. This is a transcript of that interview.More...
(GuruFocus, October 12, 2009) According to Reuters, Investment Guru George Soros said on Saturday that he would invest $1 billion in clean energy technology as part of an effort to combat climate change. More...
(GuruFocus, September 16, 2009) Following a previous article, this part review several stocks that are owned by Warren Buffett and George Soros. The two represents two extremes of investing, yet they found values in these stocks. More...
(GuruFocus, September 16, 2009)Warren Buffett and George Soros represents the two extremes of investing. Buffett likes to buy a concentrated number of good stocks at reasonable price and then hold “forever”. Soros has many other interest such as derivatives and currencies besides stocks, but his view towards stocks is the same as those towards the other instruments, he buy a large number of them and trade them. More...
(GuruFocus, September 2, 2009) Marketwatch.com features an article on hedge fund winners in terms of asset growth. Citing information released by a new hedge fund industry magezine AR (short for Absolute Return), George Soros is credit as a winner in the race, moving from No.6 to No.5 in terms of asset under management. Soros saw his asset under management grew 14% to $24 billion since the beginning of 2008. That is 41% highter than a year ago (at the end of 2007, I assume). More...
George Soros must be very bullish on stocks, he bought a lot, espeically oil. He was already heavily invested in energy stocks, and he bought more. Petroleo Brasileiro alone is accounted for more than 22% of his fund. Soros Fund Management LLC. George Soros owns 211 stocks with a total value of $2.6 billion as of 06/30/2009. These are the details of the buys and sells. More...
(GuruFocus, July 17, 2009) Both Warren Buffett and George Soros are great investors with enviable track records, yet they belong to different camps of investing. Warren Buffett belongs to buy-and-hold camp and George Soros is more of a trader. More...
(GuruFocus, July 14, 2009 ) Investment Guru George Soros is buying once again integrated circuit company Exar Corporation (EXAR). On July 2, 2009, Soros bought for his Soros Fund Management LLC 2,465,754 shares of EXAR at the price of $7.35 per share. More...
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