Job Description

Company Description

Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization

When you invest your career in CPP Investments, you join one of the most respected and fastest growing institutional investors in the world. With current assets under management valued in excess of $500 billion, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure long-term sustainability. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion by 2050. CPP Investments invests in all major asset classes, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure and fixed-income instruments, and is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, Sao Paulo and Sydney.

CPP Investments attracts and selects high-calibre individuals from top-tier institutions around the globe. Join our team and look forward to:

• Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
• Stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment
• Accelerated exposure and responsibility
• Global career development opportunities
• Being motivated every day by CPP Investments' important social purpose and unshakable principles
• A flexible/hybrid work environment combining in office collaboration and remote working
• A deeply rooted culture of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

If you share a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach everything with the highest integrity, here's an opportunity for you to invest your career at CPP Investments.



The Capital Markets and Factor Investing Department (CMF) invests assets globally in public equities, fixed income securities, currencies, commodities, and derivatives, and manages the engagement of investment managers and co-investments in public market securities.

The Systematic Strategies Group (SSG) group within the Capital Markets and Factor Investing department develops and manages systematic investment strategies across global markets spanning equities, fixed income, commodities, currencies, and volatility. SSG invests in absolute return strategies as well as long-only strategies, designed to provide a diversifying return stream to the total fund.

We are currently recruiting for SSG for a twelve-month opportunity beginning May 2023. Students enrolled in undergraduate or graduate co-op programs, or non-co-op programs and those pursuing their professional experience year (PEY) and individuals who have graduated in April 2022 or later from an undergraduate or advanced degree program in a quantitative discipline, such as Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Finance or Math are eligible to apply.

The work done will vary by role/team, but will broadly include:

Primary Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the management of multi-asset systematic investment portfolio
• Assisting Portfolio Managers in the development and implementation of portfolio analytics that produce value added insight into the risk and return characteristics of the portfolio
• Opportunity to contribute to portfolio management topics including (but not limited to): portfolio construction and management, back testing, and transaction cost analysis

Other Responsibilities:

• Assisting in deep dive analysis of implemented strategies and portfolio performance
• Facilitating day-to-day activities on the desk such as the reporting of performance, risk, and positioning of a suite of factor portfolios
• Ad-hoc projects analyzing and making recommendations on topics such as investment research, data engineering, and portfolio engineering

Qualifications

Position Requirements

• The ideal candidate is either i) enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate co-op program, ii) enrolled in a non-co-op program and pursuing a professional experience year (PEY), or iii) has graduated in April 2022 or later from an undergraduate or advanced degree program, in a quantitative discipline such as computer Science, economics, engineering, finance or math.
• Strong programming skills, preferably in Python
• Empirical research experience analyzing large data sets
• Interest in capital markets and investment management
• Knowledge of financial instruments (e.g., equities, futures, swaps or options) is an asset
• Good written and verbal communication skills and an interest in working in a dynamic collaborative environment.
• Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously.
• Candidates must exemplify CPP Investments' guiding principles of high performance, integrity, and partnership.

Additional Information

If you have an interest in working with talented professionals in the financial industry in an environment of integrity, partnership and high performance, then you should consider a career in at CPP Investments.

To apply, please include a cover letter, resume and transcripts (full unofficial version).

Deadline: December 11, 2022 at 11:59 PM

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At CPP Investments, we are committed to diversity and equitable access to employment opportunities based on ability. We thank all applicants for their interest but will only contact candidates selected to advance in the hiring process.

Our Commitment to Inclusion and Diversity:

In addition to being dedicated to building a workforce that reflects diverse talent, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and accessible experience. If you require an accommodation for any part of the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials, accessible meeting rooms, etc.), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

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Mandatory Vaccine Policy

All employees in the Toronto, New York, San Francisco, Mumbai, Sydney, Hong Kong, and Sao Paulo offices will be required to be vaccinated against COVID-19. Accommodations to this policy will be made for medical or other protected grounds. Please contact us to discuss any accommodation needs.