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>Much has been made of the UK’s economy’s apparent solidity, so far this year given sizeable q/q gains in the first two quarters of the year of 0.7% and 0.5%. </li>
<li>But this maybe something of a flash in the pan, not least as GDP growth has been positive in only one of the last four months of data.</li>
<li>We see a better August but only a below consensus 0.1% m/m rise, despite a clear and already reported rise in retail sales, helped by more normal seasonal weather.</li>
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Much has been made of the UK’s economy’s apparent solidity, so far this year given sizeable q/q gains in the first two quarters of the year of 0.7% and 0.5%. 
But this maybe something of a flash in the pan, not least as GDP growth has been positive in only one of the last four months of data.
We see a better August but only a below consensus 0.1% m/m rise, despite a clear and already reported rise in retail sales, helped by more normal seasonal weather.


UK GDP Preview (Oct 11): Moderating Momentum?