Matthew Oakeshott co-founded OLIM in 1986. He graduated from Oxford University with a first class degree in PPE. He worked as Special Adviser to Roy Jenkins when Home Secretary before joining Warburg Investment Management in 1976. He was the investment manager of Courtaulds Pension Fund from 1981 to 1985. At OLIM he has been jointly responsible for asset allocation, managing high-yielding property portfolios and part of UK equity portfolios. He is a director of Value and Income Trust plc and a life peer.