Thursday, September 3, 2009

The Alchemy of Soros

George Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management and the Open Society Institute. In 1970 he co-founded the Quantum Fund which created the bulk of his fortune and retired in 1980. He started his career as trader and analyst in the United States where he developed his own "theory of reflexivity".This theory constitutes of a set of ideas that seeks to explain the relationship between thought and reality, which he used to predict, among other things, the emergence of financial bubbles.

For more information see the article from Financial Times and visit the following sites:

www.georgesoros.com

www.soros.org