Raoul Pal
Raoul Pal is a globally renowned business cycle economist, crypto proponent, investment strategist, and economic historian. He is the Founder and CEO of Real Vision, a disruptive financial media brand where he leads in providing unparalleled access to the very best insights and analysis from the brightest financial minds. He is also the Founder and Publisher of The Global Macro Investor, a highly regarded macroeconomic and investment strategy research service. Throughout his career, Pal has run a successful global macro hedge fund, co-managed Goldman Sachs’ hedge fund sales business in Equities and Equity Derivatives in Europe, and helped design the BBC TV program Million Dollar Traders, training participants in investment and risk management strategy. At 36, Pal retired from managing client money and now lives in the Cayman Islands, where he manages Real Vision and writes for The Global Macro Investor. He is considered a thought leader in the world of finance and is widely followed by investors, traders, and financial professionals seeking insights into global markets and economic trends.
Raoul Pal Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder and CEO
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Head of European Hedge Fund Sales
Academic History
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Economics and Law
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Co-Founder and CEO, Real Vision
Co-Founder, Science Magic Studios
Co-Founder and CEO, Exponential Age Asset Management
Board Member, Sui Foundation
The Global Macro Investor is one of the world's preeminent macroeconomic and investment strategy research services.
GMI is an internationally renowned, thought provoking research publication for a highly restricted paid membership consisting of many of the world's largest and most prestigious capital allocators.
He uses a combination of both fundamental and technical analysis to provide subscribers a framework for understanding the state of global economics and cryptocurrency.
Real Vision is a disruptive financial knowledge platform that gives subscribers the knowledge, tools, and network to succeed in their financial journey.
The platform delivers exclusive, long-form interviews, research, live strategy calls, and analysis from impossible-to-access guests and the sharpest minds in global finance, technology, and cryptocurrency.
He leads Real Vision in offering in-depth video interviews and research publications from the world's best investors.
EARLY CAREER
Pal was a Portfolio Manager for the GLG Global Macro Fund, one of the world's largest hedge fund firms and known as the Man Group today.
He was Co-Head of Hedge Fund Sales in equities and derivatives at Goldman Sachs in Europe, based in London.
Before that, he was a Director at NatWest Markets and a Senior Executive for James Capel & Co.
He was one of a relatively small number of investors to predict the mortgage crisis of 2008–2009.
MEDIA
Pal has been profiled, featured, or quoted in various leading financial media outlets and publications.
He has appeared in Business Insider, Yahoo! Finance, Benzinga, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, CoinMarketCap, and Real Vision, among others.