Founder & Head of Research, Fortress Hill Advisors

Alex Ng

Alex Ng is the founder and head of research of the economic and investment research house Fortress Hill Advisors. Prior to founding Fortress Hill Advisors, he worked as an economic research analyst across government, academic, and financial institutes including the Hong Kong Financial Secretary’s Office (Office of the Government Economist), Economic Research Center of the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies at CUHK, and State Street Global Markets. Alex holds a Master of Arts in Economics degree from Columbia University in the City of New York and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Mathematics from Wesleyan University (CT, USA).

Our firm's expertise lies in macroeconomics, global macro,  global thematic research, company and equity research, multi-asset strategy, event driven, and ESG.

We also do proprietary trading on the firm's capital, to try to vindicate our investment thesis. Our flagship publication, Heard from Fortress Hill (HFFH) provides our weekly market observations and is freely available on our website: https://fortresshill-advisors.com/hffh/

Founder & Head of Research

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<li>The BRICS Summit,  despite expectations, and the Kazan deceleration, which was a joint statement signed after the summit, is not a game-changer but offered little of substance.</li>
<li>No concrete steps were taken on accepting new members in Kazan while 13 countries including Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Turkiye, Vietnam and Venezuela were announced as new partners.</li>
<li>Turkishe’s president Erdogan joined the summit but no consensus reached for Turkiye to become a member in the near future. India and Brazil remained critical that BRICS could become anti-Western.</li>
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The BRICS Summit,  despite expectations, and the Kazan deceleration, which was a joint statement signed after the summit, is not a game-changer but offered little of substance.
No concrete steps were taken on accepting new members in Kazan while 13 countries including Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Turkiye, Vietnam and Venezuela were announced as new partners.
Turkishe’s president Erdogan joined the summit but no consensus reached for Turkiye to become a member in the near future. India and Brazil remained critical that BRICS could become anti-Western.


BRICS Summit 2024: Not a Game Changer