Chen Zhao is Founding Partner and Chief Global Strategist at Alpine Macro, an independent global investment research firm. In his roles, he focuses on providing differentiated market insights, contrarian views and profitable investment strategy recommendations that help investors manage risk and make better informed investment and asset allocation decisions. Zhao is a recognized and experienced strategist with a long-term record of covering global macroeconomic trends and financial markets. He is known to numerous investors worldwide as the long-serving former Chief Strategist of BCA Research where he spent 23 years as a Partner, Managing Director and Chief Global Strategist. At BCA, he developed and wrote the firm’s China and Emerging Markets publications in the 1990s.
Alpine Macro is a leading independent global macro investment research firm based in Montreal, Canada.
The firm focuses on the analysis of major macroeconomic forces and specializes in forecasting the direction of global financial markets.
The firm also provides actionable recommendations on investment strategy and asset allocation.
Chen joined BCA in 1992 as a Principal and Managing Editor.
He launched the firm's China services in 1993 and created and ran BCA's Emerging Market Strategy services between 1998 and 2005.
Chen was the author of BCA's flagship publication, Global Investment Strategy for a decade.
MEDIA & APPEARANCES
Chen was a speaker at Qwoted Investment Conference 2021.
He appeared as a guest on CFA Society Orlando and The Market NZZ.
He has also appeared on Bloomberg, BusinessWire, Yahoo! Finance, MarketWatch, Reuters, and Real Vision.