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>China policymakers’ deleveraging pressures on property developers have been supplemented by recent common prosperity measures to ensure that “housing is for living and not for speculation”.</li>
<li>This has raised concerns of a major property developer bankruptcy and questions of whether China’s highly valued property market could finally see a housing bust.</li>
<li>Chinese authorities have huge economic and political incentives to ensure that deleveraging pressure is followed by support as property developers deleverage.</li>
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China policymakers’ deleveraging pressures on property developers have been supplemented by recent common prosperity measures to ensure that “housing is for living and not for speculation”.
This has raised concerns of a major property developer bankruptcy and questions of whether China’s highly valued property market could finally see a housing bust.
Chinese authorities have huge economic and political incentives to ensure that deleveraging pressure is followed by support as property developers deleverage.


China’s Long Property Bubble and Indebted Developers