Soros on Soros: staying ahead of the curve
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| adam_text | SOROS
ON SOROS
Staying Ahead of the Curve
GEORGE SOROS
with
Byron Wien and Krisztina Koenen
John Wiley amp; Sons, Inc
New York • Chichester • Brisbane • Toronto • Singapore
CONTENTS
PART ONE
Investing and Global Finance
with Byron Wien 1
Chapter 1 The Investor 3
Life at the top with Warren Buffett * Strengths of Quantum
Fund * Derivatives * Leveraged to the hilt * Measuring
risk • The first hedge fund * Intuition as an investment tool
• Soros as the ^security analyst • The making of a money
manager • Going against the herd * Characteristics of good
investors: character and intelligence • The messianic complex
• Risk taking as the essential ingredient • Formulating a
thesis for investing • Different ways to skin a cat • Finding
the right management team for Quantum Fund •
Maintaining performance and monitoring the thesis *
Damage control—correcting a loss • Disengaging from active
money management * Who really runs Quantum Fund? *
Netting $1 billion on sterling • Losing big on yen •
Attracting the best talent
Chapter 2 The Guru in Training 25
Parents as personal influences * Tension as a driving force in
life • Family history • Nazi persecution—the communist
regime in Hungary • Assuming a false identity to stay alive •
The journey to England * Other influences: his brother, Karl
Popper, Andrei Sakharov, Vaclav Havel, Bronislaw Geremek,
VII
Contents
Grigory Yavlinsky • Soros as salesman * Working in the
box • Getting to Wall Street • International arbitrage •
The first big career breakthrough—trading European
securities • The Interest equalization tax—an end to trading
European securities * Impact of his philosophical ideas on
investing and politics • The beginning of Quantum Fund
Chapter 3 The Story of Quantum Fund 47
The early years of Quantum Fund—starting out with
$12 million • Working with Jim Rogers • Early investments
• Breaking up the partnership • Dealing with a life crisis •
Coming to terms with success • Loosening the constraints *
Growing the fund from $100 million to $400 million •
Taking the first big loss * Searching for a management team
• Dropping the guilt and hang-ups * The Real Time
Experiment explained—conducting a study to influence the
results • The Alchemy of Finance * The Plaza Accord •
Taking a hit on Black Monday • Building an effective
management team • Stanley Druckenmiller • The second
worst year in history • Quantum Fund today
Chapter 4 The Theory of Investing 65
A framework for investing—reflexivity * Far-from-
equilbrium conditions • Reflexivity defined • Boom/bust
sequences * The boom/bust pattern explained • The pattern
applied to the Soviet Union and the U S banking system
Chapter 5 Theory in Action 79
Boom/bust applied to today s financial markets • The
Sterling crisis as a pointed example • How it happened
• Breakdown of the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM)
• Thoughts on currency speculation * Another period of
currency volatility * Playing the Japanese market • Ministry
of Finance (MOF)—the kingpin of the power struggle • The
U S market: good and getting better • Thoughts on the
Mexican currency crisis—Explaining the peso crash •
Argentina and Brazil • Risk and reward in China • Today s
Vlll
Contents
weak dollar • Excessive volatility with no constituency to
deal with it • Regulating derivatives
PART TWO
Geopolitics, Philanthropy, and
Global Change
with Krisztina Koenen 109
Chapter 6 The Philanthropist 111
Giving away millions in Europe • The motivation behind
the philanthropy * The Open Society Fund •
Philanthropy with a policy purpose * A commitment to
South Africa • Supporting Eastern European dissidents •
Foundation reach into Hungary • Balancing Foundation
efforts and Quantum Fund activity • Foundations in 25
countries • Notable successes and huge failures •
Adapting to the changing political climate • The danger of
becoming too strong • The Soros Foundation of today •
Central European University • Conflicts of interest in
Eastern Europe • Redefining Foundation purpose
Chapter 7 The Stateless Statesman 151
The economic future of Eastern Europe • Optimism for
Central Europe • The Soviet demise • The future of Russia
• Ukraine and Macedonia • Poland as a model for economic
growth and social reform • Observing the process of change
• The fate of Romania * Redesigning Western assistance
programs • Changing the course of history in Eastern
Europe—marginally
Chapter 8 The Future of the United States
and Open Society 177
Switching focus • Adjusting to the new world order • A
disappointing response to the crisis in Bosnia * An amended
version of freedom • Open society versus laissez faire • The
IX
Contents
coming disintegration of Europe • An identity crisis for the
U S • The failure of the United Nations and NATO • The
role of the U N in today s conflicts • A looming crisis • The
collapse of international financial markets • The meaning of
money * Exploring the drug debate • Project on death •
Having too much power
PART THREE
Philosophy
with Byron Wien 207
Chapter 9 The Failed Philosopher 209
A belief in your own fallibility * Flawed mental constructs
• Reflexivity * Participants cannot act on the basis of
knowledge • A new theory of truth • Heisenberg s
Uncertainty Principle • Uncertainty in human affairs •
Social science as a false metaphor • Near-equilibrium and
far-from-equilibrium conditions • The boundary lines •
Open and closed societies • No grand pattern of history •
Regime change • Deficiency of values in open societies •
Fallibility as a basis for values
Chapter 10 The Power and the Myth 237
Finding a forum • Gaining access to the policy makers
• George Soros as a Jew • The power to move markets
• Panned in the press • The adventure of ideas • An actor
on the stage of history • Dealing with the complexity of
world problems * A last chance for self-revelation
Appendix Selected Writings
by George Soros 251
Open and Closed Societies • Prospect for European
Disintegration • Hedge Funds and Dynamic Hedging
Index 323
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