George Soros - Wikipedia. George Soros (,[4]; Hungarian: Soros György, pronounced [ˈʃoroʃ ˈɟørɟ]; born György Schwartz,[1][2] August 1. Hungarian- American[a] investor, business magnate, philanthropist, and author.[7][8] Soros is one of the world's most successful investors.[9][1.

As of May 2. 01. 7, he had a net worth of $2. Born in Budapest, he survived Nazi Germany- occupied Hungary and emigrated to England in 1. He attended the London School of Economics graduating with a bachelor's and eventually a master's in philosophy. He began his business career by taking various jobs at merchant banks in England and then the United States, before starting his first hedge fund, Double Eagle, in 1. Profits from his first fund furnished the seed money to start Soros Fund Management, his second hedge fund, in 1. Double Eagle was renamed the Quantum Fund and was the principal firm Soros advised.

At its founding, the Quantum Fund had $1. He is known as "The Man Who Broke the Bank of England" because of his short sale of US$1. Pound sterling, making him a profit of $1 billion during the 1. Black Wednesday UK currency crisis.[1. His early studies of philosophy led him to develop and apply Karl Popper's General Theory of Reflexivity to capital markets, which he claims renders him a clear picture of asset bubbles and fundamental/market value of securities, as well as value discrepancies used for shorting and swapping stocks.[1. He is a well- known supporter of American progressive and American liberal political causes and dispenses his donations through his foundation, the Open Society Foundations.[1.

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Between 1. 97. 9 and 2. Soros donated more than $1. He played a significant role in the peaceful transition from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe in the late 1.

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Europe's largest higher education endowments to the Central European University in his hometown.[2. His political philanthropy has made him a "bugaboo of European nationalists."[2. Early life and education. Soros was born in Budapest in the Kingdom of Hungary to a well- to- do non- observant Jewish family, who, like many upper- middle class Hungarian Jews at the time, were uncomfortable with their roots. Soros has described his home as antisemitic.[2. His mother Erzsébet (also known as Elizabeth) came from a family that owned a thriving silk shop.

His father Tivadar (also known as Teodoro) was a lawyer[2. World War I until he escaped from Russia and rejoined his family in Budapest.[2. The two married in 1. Tivadar was an Esperantist writer and taught Soros to speak Esperanto in his childhood.[2. In 1. 93. 6 Soros's family changed their name from the German- Jewish Schwartz to Soros, as protective camouflage in increasingly antisemitic Hungary.[2. Tivadar liked the new name because it is a palindrome and because of its meaning. In Hungarian, soros means "next in line," or "designated successor"; in Esperanto it means "will soar."[3.

Soros was 1. 3 years old in March 1. Nazi Germanyoccupied Hungary.[3. Jewish children were barred from attending school by the Nazis, and Soros and the other schoolchildren were made to report to the Judenrat ("Jewish Council") which had been established during the occupation. Soros later described this time to writer Michael Lewis: "The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices. I was told to go to the Jewish Council. And there I was given these small slips of paper.. I took this piece of paper to my father.

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He instantly recognized it. This was a list of Hungarian Jewish lawyers.

He said, "You deliver the slips of paper and tell the people that if they report they will be deported."[3. Soros did not return to that job; his family purchased documents to say that they were Christians, thereby allowing them to survive the war. Later that year at age 1. Soros posed as the Christian godson of an official of the collaborationist Hungarian government's Ministry of Agriculture, who himself had a Jewish wife in hiding.

On one occasion, rather than leave the 1. Soros with him while he inventoried a rich Jewish family's estate, though Soros did not take part. Tivadar not only saved his immediate family but also many other Hungarian Jews, and George would later write that 1. In 1. 94. 5, Soros survived the Siege of Budapest in which Soviet and German forces fought house to house through the city. In 1. 94. 7, Soros immigrated to England and became a student at the London School of Economics.[3. While a student of the philosopher Karl Popper, Soros worked as a railway porter and as a waiter. Soros received £4.

Quaker charity.[3. In a discussion at the Los Angeles World Affairs Council in 2. Alvin Shuster, former foreign editor of the Los Angeles Times, asked Soros, "How does one go from an immigrant to a financier? When did you realize that you knew how to make money?" Soros replied, "Well, I had a variety of jobs and I ended up selling fancy goods on the seaside, souvenir shops, and I thought, that's really not what I was cut out to do. So, I wrote to every managing director in every merchant bank in London, got just one or two replies, and eventually that's how I got a job in a merchant bank."[3.

That job was an entry- level position in Singer & Friedlander. Soros earned a Bachelor of Science in philosophy in 1.

Master of Science in philosophy in 1. London School of Economics.[3. Investment career. Early business experience. After graduating, Soros found it difficult to get work, and settled for a job as a traveling salesman for a fancy- goods wholesaler selling to retailers in Welsh seaside resorts.

He described this period as the "low point of my life," and wrote letters to a number of merchant banks requesting interviews. Watch The Green Prince Online Etonline. Many of these ignored him, and others humiliated him in the interviews. He credits his acceptance at Singer and Friedlander to the fact that the managing director was a fellow Hungarian.[4. Singer and Friedlander. In 1. 95. 4, Soros began his financial career at the merchant bank Singer & Friedlander of London.

He worked as a clerk and later moved to the arbitrage department. A fellow employee, Robert Mayer, suggested he apply at his father's brokerage house, F. M. Mayer of New York.[4. F. M. Mayer. In 1. Soros moved to New York City, where he worked as an arbitrage trader for F. M. Mayer (1. 95. 6–5.

He specialized in European stocks, which were becoming popular with U. S. institutional investors following the formation of the Coal and Steel Community, which later became the Common Market.[4. Wertheim and Co. In 1. F. M. Mayer, he moved to Wertheim & Co. European Securities, where he stayed until 1. He planned to stay for five years, enough time to save $5.

England to study philosophy.[4. During this period, Soros developed the theory of reflexivity based on the ideas of his tutor at the London School of Economics, Karl Popper. Reflexivity posited that market values are often driven by the fallible ideas of participants, not only by the economic fundamentals of the situation. Reflexive feedback loops are created where ideas influence events and events influence ideas.

Soros further argued that this leads to markets having procyclical "virtuous or vicious" cycles of boom and bust, in contrast to the equilibrium predictions of more standard neoclassical economics."[4. Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder. From 1. 96. 3 to 1. Watch Vegas, Baby Online (2017).

Soros's experience as a vice president at Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder resulted in little enthusiasm for the job; business was slack following the introduction of the interest equalization tax, which undermined the viability of Soros's European trading.

He spent the years from 1. In 1. 96. 6 he started a fund with $1. But he was principally motivated by a desire to assert himself as an investor to profit from his reflexivity insights.

In 1. 96. 9 Soros set up the Double Eagle hedge fund with $4m of investors' capital including $2. It was based in Curaçao, Dutch Antilles.[4. In 1. 97. 3 the Double Eagle Fund had $1. Soros Fund. George Soros and Jim Rogers received returns on their share of capital and 2.