We Are Oxford’s Premier Student Investment Society
Founded in 2017, the Oxford Alpha Fund aims to be the premier student investment society in the United Kingdom, learning to produce superior risk-adjusted returns through fundamental equity research and quantitative strategies. Our platform provides a unique opportunity for driven students with a passion for the financial markets to hone their technical knowledge and practice researching – and pitching – investment ideas, while managing a real-money, student investment portfolio. We help train Oxford’s most budding and keen investors, often coming in with no prior experience, right from the outset.
A Refined Talent-Pipeline
Best in Class Research
We deliver alpha for our student investment portfolio by producing thoughtful, rigorous fundamental research, supported by proprietary financial models built by our analysts. We adopt an Oxonian approach toward investing, prioritising academic rigour, first-principle thinking, and a deep-dive approach toward research. Every term, we pitch our best ideas to industry veterans for critique.
Read our research here.
A UNIQUE PLATFORM
We attract and develop some of Oxford’s keenest and most passionate young investors. We offer students keen to work in the buy-side a platform to showcase their ability, and provide recruiters direct access to proven, high-calibre individuals.
We are a firm believer in the value of diversity and do our best to promote it. We circulate research amongst our research partners, and maintain close relationships with firms in the industry. Our team members have completed internships and secured full-time roles at some of the world’s best asset managers, hedge funds, and banks. Read testimonials for the fund here.
Our members have interned at and received full time offers from:
Mentorship and Development
We believe in the value of learning by doing: our analysts develop as investors by pursuing a rigorous course of directed self study, while benefiting from training with our research partners.
To get feedback, we conduct termly stock pitches to panels consisting of senior directors and portfolio managers from leading banks and hedge funds, allowing them to ground their work in practical, real-world critique.
