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From Roiders' Breaking Views, I'm Anthony Curry.

And I'm Jennifer Saber.

And you're listening to The Views Room.

So it's time for our final edition of what's in store for

2019. Our colleagues around the world are helping us pluck relevant themes from our annual

predictions book entitled High Anxiety. Later in the show, we'll be handing over to folks in Hong

Kong for a discussion about which Indian startups are poised to succeed overseas. We'll round off the show by quizzing two of our team,

how they chose just three indicators to assess the health of the global economy.

And to begin, though, we passed the mic to London

to chat about perhaps the most famous and increasingly infamous investment fund.

We have Liam Proud and George Hay, joining, Swaha Patinaik, to discuss all things

softbank and vision fund. Welcome. Liam, let me start with you. Your prediction was that

SoftBank, which has something like nearly 100 billion, at its disposal. Running into some problems this year,

your prediction is coming true even faster than you expected. So do you want to just talk us

through what you thought the problems were going to be and maybe then we could turn to what

the problems that are emerging very early on the new year? So, I mean, the Vision Fund is this,

as I said, it's about $97 billion of committed capital.

And it's managed by SoftBank.

And this is controlled by Masayoshi Son, who is Japan's richest man.

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