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In September 2006, Soros pledged $50 million to the Millennium Promise, led by economist Jeffrey Sachs to provide educational, agricultural, and medical aid to help villages in Africa enduring poverty.
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Paul Soros ( Hungarian: Soros Pál; born Pál Schwartz; June...
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Mini Bio. In 2008, Jeffrey founded Considered Entertainment. There he produced the Emmy-nominated, Humanitas Prize-winning documentary A Small Act. Jeffrey also produced Rules Don't Apply, written and directed by Warren Beatty, and Basmati Blues with Brie Larson.
Jeffrey Soros. Producer: Legacy: The True Story of the LA Lakers. In 2008, Jeffrey founded Considered Entertainment. There he produced the Emmy-nominated, Humanitas Prize-winning documentary A Small Act. Jeffrey also produced Rules Don't Apply, written and directed by Warren Beatty, and Basmati Blues with Brie Larson.
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Jeffrey Soros is the CEO of Los Angeles Media Fund, which has grown since 2012 to develop, produce and finance film, TV, theater and live events.
- Early Life and Education
- Notable Accomplishments
- Soros's Investment Style
- The Bottom Line
Soros, who is of Jewish descent, was born in Budapest in August 1930 and survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary, emigrating to England in 1947. He earned a doctorate from the London School of Economics before embarking on a career in banking.He founded his first hedge fund, then called Double Eagle, in 1969.
"The man who broke the Bank of England"
George Soros is most famous for a single-day gain of $1 billion on Sept. 16, 1992, which he made by short selling the British pound. At the time, England was part of the European exchange rate mechanism (ERM), a fixed-exchange-rate agreement among a number of European countries. The other countries were pressuring England to devalue its currency or leave the system. After resisting the devaluation for some time, England floatedits currency and the value of the pound dropped. Using leverage, S...
Soros and Brexit
More recently, Soros has been vocal about the precarious future of the European Union in the wake of Britain's 2016 vote to leave the union and the continuing refugee crisis that has brought millions of Middle Eastern refugees to Europe. Soros warned of an existential crisis facing Europe.He has set forth a plan to rescue Europe from a pending crisis by tackling three major issues: the refugee crisis, territorial breakups like Brexit, and the austerity crisis that has plagued countries like I...
George Soros is unique among highly successful investorsin admitting that instinct plays a large role in his investment decisions. Nonetheless, he is famously well-informed about economic trends on a regional and global level and is known to use this knowledge to exploit market inefficiencies with large, highly leveraged bets. Soros has both the ca...
As one of the most noteworthy investors in modern history, George Soros is known for making outsized bets against the British pound, and later the Thai baht. With the success of his currency bets, Soros has donated billions to promoting democracy and backing liberal causes around the world through the Open Society Foundations.
Paul Soros ( Hungarian: Soros Pál; born Pál Schwartz; June 5, 1926 – June 15, 2013) was a Hungarian-born American mechanical engineer, inventor, businessman and philanthropist. Soros founded Soros Associates, which designs and develops bulk handling and port facilities.
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Alexander Soros (born October 27, 1985) is an American investor and philanthropist. One of the five sons of billionaire George Soros, he chairs the Board of Directors of the Open Society Foundations and sits on the investment committee for Soros Fund Management. He was also named one of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders of 2018.
