Hello and welcome to what the finance is to another episode of the what the finance podcast,

where we talked to experts to help gain a greater understanding about what is happening

in the world of finance investing and markets. On today's podcast, I'm happy to welcome

Weston Nakamura, who's a former Goldman Sachs and Jeffrey's trader in Tokyo and

currently manager of the Real Vision Exchange. So, Weston, thanks for joining the podcast there.

Thanks Anthony for having me and just to update my title is Global Markets Editor

at Real Vision. So, okay. So, have you on the promotion then?

Sure, let's call it that. It's a kind of a expanded role.

Okay, awesome. Good stuff. So, yeah, I was wondering if you maybe want to give us a little bit

of a overview of your backgrounds and maybe how you've gone into this stage because from what

you were telling me before, it's sort of not the conventional roots.

Yeah, so thanks for, again, having me here and thanks for asking that because this is kind of

is a rare opportunity for me to like talk about how I came into finance and how I actually came to

Real Vision or to where I am currently. It's not a very, it's far from a typical sort of avenue

and when it's important for two reasons, one is because people seem to find, I guess,

like inspiration from it, which is good if that's the case or not. But the other more important

reason is that it provides background context as to all the views that I put out there all time,

like, you know, to let you know where I'm kind of coming from, where my values are, if you will,

and all that is not what you would think, like, you know, if you just heard the intro,

you would think, like, I'm a golden guy or something like that. That, yeah, that might be true

from like a sliver from a past, but it's not the full picture at all and that by itself is

not really good context either. So in Tokyo, as you mentioned, I've been here for a few years,

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