The head of the Quantum Fund profits from the free market but worries about its side effects.

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Graduating from the London School of Economics some years later, Soros would go on to create the Quantum Fund.

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The American investor and cofounder of the Quantum Fund has been critical of government spending and intervention in the markets and predicts it will lead to serious inflationary problems.

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For example, Jim Rodgers, co-founder with George Soros of the Quantum Fund, told the BBC that a lack of farmers played a starring role in a recent spike in food prices - grain, corn and soybean being critical parts of the food supply chain.

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Born in Budapest, Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary and went on to study at the London School of Economics before launching storied hedge fund firm Quantum Fund Management in 1969.

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Gemma Godfrey is a quantum physicist, former hedge fund manager and now chairman of the investment committee of wealth management firm Credo Capital.

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