The Saїd Business School at the University of Oxford and Fidelity Investment Managers created the Oxford Fidelity Research Alliance in December 2010. The Alliance is intended to spur research in financial economics, with a particular emphasis on understanding the behaviour of asset prices such as stocks, bonds, commodities and foreign exchange. The Alliance provides full scholarship funding for up to two simultaneous students pursuing a DPhil in Financial Economics, and funding for research by Oxford faculty members working in the area of asset pricing. The first scholarship will be awarded for the academic year 2012-2013 and applications are invited.
Dr Tarun Ramadorai, Reader in Finance at the Saїd Business School, will be the first Director of the Alliance.
Professor Tim Jenkinson, the Head of the Finance Area at Saїd Business School, said: ‘For our research in finance to have impact, it must be relevant to practice. We are delighted to have formed this alliance between Oxford and Fidelity, which will be of huge benefit to our faculty and doctoral students’.
Fidelity international, one of the world’s largest asset management firms, is the sole provider of funding for the Alliance.