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/

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Japan & United states / Cross Asset Strategy

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<li>JPY has gained momentum since prospect of Fed rate cut rises and BOJ raised interest rate.</li>
<li>Yen has depreciated by 32% over the past 4 years. As dollar/yen strengthens to over 150, we believe Yen will recover to 110 level as US Treasury Yields move lower.</li>
<li>As US yields lower, the USD bond held by BOJ will move higher and Bank of Japan will be forced to sell USD bond and USD to rebalance their portfolio.</li>
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JPY has gained momentum since prospect of Fed rate cut rises and BOJ raised interest rate.
Yen has depreciated by 32% over the past 4 years. As dollar/yen strengthens to over 150, we believe Yen will recover to 110 level as US Treasury Yields move lower.
As US yields lower, the USD bond held by BOJ will move higher and Bank of Japan will be forced to sell USD bond and USD to rebalance their portfolio.


JPY Movement Under Fed Rate Cut and BOJ Rate Rise