Jim Rogers, the famed investor who earned a 4,200% return with George Soros, told us the best 2 assets to buy for profits after a 'total collapse' in markets Jim Rogers, the chairman of Rogers Holdings, plans to take advantage of the buying opportunities that present themselves during this stock-market correction. He told Business Insider he will be buying stocks linked to China's travel industry if the country makes progress on combating the coronavirus outbreak. Click here for more BI Prime stories . The bull market 's 11th birthday was the day it nearly died. Instead of having a party, the SP 500 suffered its worst performance since the depths of the 2008 financial crisis — one so severe that it triggered a marketwide trading halt . The word "contagion" succinctly captured why there was chaos: investors were worried that the novel coronavirus, combined with an oil shock, would invade the global economy and cripple its growth. Bearish investors were likely the only people celebrating on the bull run's 11th birthday. But even famed investors like Jim Rogers, who severally warned that the " worst crash of our lifetime " was coming, was not certain that this episode was his forecast come true.