OXIP is a new kind of investment office run on principles similar to those of the well known US endowments and Family Offices, but adapted to the needs of the UK Charity and Private Wealth sectors. Its first pooled fund, the OXIP LP, for Charities and Endowments, was launched on 1 May 2006. A second fund with an identical investment policy, the OXIP Diversified Fund, for expert investors and family offices, followed on 1 November 2006.

OXIP is a collaborative venture between five Oxford Colleges (Christ Church, St Catherine’s, Balliol, New College and St John’s), its professional management, and the leading investment consultant Watson Wyatt. It was created with the sole purpose of managing the Colleges’ endowments in a way designed to produce optimal risk-adjusted returns from a diversified portfolio of assets. The objectives of the founder colleges are to protect the endowment against inflation, to be able to draw a prudent and sustainable sum for annual spending, and (subject to the first two conditions) to increase real wealth over time. The founders believe that these investment objectives are shared by many other long-term institutional and individual investors, and the OXIP funds are accordingly structured to allow investors with similar aims to co-invest alongside the colleges at a fair price.

OXIP is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority.

For more information please contact:
Mr Paul Martin
Oxford Investment Partners
Christ Church
Oxford
OX1 1DP
Tel: 01865 988155
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Web: www.oxip.co.uk