Welcome to SFA (Oxford) Ltd

SFA (Oxford) Ltd is a wholly independent consultancy and a world authority on the market dynamics of platinum group metals (PGMs) production and consumption. We also provide strategic intelligence for crude oil and major base and precious metal markets, as well as consultancy services to many important participants in the industry on a non-exclusive basis.

Our Analysis

Supply: detailed analysis of global supply activities, tracking year by year the cost and profit dynamics at industry-wide or individual producer level, and quantifying and extrapolating expected long term production
Demand: readily applied knowledge of the current and future end-user industries enables projection of immediate to long-term expected demand trends by end-use or region
Prices: in-depth, clearly identified trends in prices, futures trading and forecast movements from the immediate to the long-term
Preliminary due diligence over commodity investments: equity, projects and ventures
Political risk: research into the regional risks affecting production using links with a wide range of associates, including members of the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics (LSE)
Confidential customised assignments: strategic, technical, economic and political aspects covered

SFA (Oxford) Ltd was established in 2001 and incorporated in 2005. With many years of expertise in providing studies for a range of producer, fund manager and end-user clients, SFA (Oxford) Ltd provides a unique, confidential, in-depth service to the commodities sector.