Man Group has extended it’s funding for the the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (OMI), a centre for interdisciplinary research in financial markets established in conjunction with Oxford University, for a further five years until at least 2027.
This extension takes Man Group’s commitment to 20 years of continuous funding and underscores the firm’s commitment to machine learning research in quantitative finance.
The OMI opened in 2007, bringing together leading quantitative finance academics and research students alongside Man Group researchers based in the co-located Man Research Laboratory (MRL). The dual academic-commercial environment provided by the OMI and MRL was the first collaboration of its kind between a university and an investment management firm, and remains unique.
Man Group has committed over £35 million in research funding since the OMI’s inception, and continues to be its primary partner. The OMI also benefits from significant funding from Research Councils UK and other academic funding sources.
