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

FX Weekly Strategy: September 30th - October 4th

Global FX: Summertime sadness for USD as yields drag

FX Weekly Strategy: G10, September 16th-20th

Global FX: Fed easing and dollar weakness: uneasy bedfellows

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<li>Focus on PMIs to confirm more risk positive market tone. Some downside risks in Europe, particularly the UK. JPY weakness over the last week should fade.</li>
<li>The week starts with the preliminary PMI data for September.  Despite a dip on Friday, the equity market showed a generally risk positive tone through the week.</li>
<li>This was helped by a confident tone to the FOMC statement which foresaw only a modest slowdown with unemployment peaking at 4.4% and inflation under control.</li>
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Focus on PMIs to confirm more risk positive market tone. Some downside risks in Europe, particularly the UK. JPY weakness over the last week should fade.
The week starts with the preliminary PMI data for September.  Despite a dip on Friday, the equity market showed a generally risk positive tone through the week.
This was helped by a confident tone to the FOMC statement which foresaw only a modest slowdown with unemployment peaking at 4.4% and inflation under control.


FX Weekly Strategy: September 23rd-27th