Soros: His key calls and career lows

1) The man who broke the Bank of England Never one to do things by halves, in 1992 Soros bet big that the pound had entered the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) at too high a rate, and would have to be devalued. His fund short sold $10bn worth of the currency and when the UK exited the ERM and the pound was devalued Soros was one of the few happy men on Black Wednesday - having earned around $1.1bn. 2) Insider trading In 2002, Soros was found guilty of insider trading and profiting from knowledge about a takeover bid for French bank Societe Generale in 1988. He was fined ...