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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<li>The 2021 power shortage in China has captured the market’s attention, and begs the question of whether this coming winter is safe against blackout.</li>
<li>Markets are concerned that any extended power outage may impose additional and even bigger headwinds to the Chinese economy on top of the looming Evergrande debt crisis and regulatory oversight.</li>
<li>The 2021 power shortage in China was caused by the inability of state grids to raise electricity prices and a supply-demand shortfall in energy production sources, in particular coal. </li>
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The 2021 power shortage in China has captured the market’s attention, and begs the question of whether this coming winter is safe against blackout.
Markets are concerned that any extended power outage may impose additional and even bigger headwinds to the Chinese economy on top of the looming Evergrande debt crisis and regulatory oversight.
The 2021 power shortage in China was caused by the inability of state grids to raise electricity prices and a supply-demand shortfall in energy production sources, in particular coal. 


Power Shortage at Upcoming China's Winter?