Intern Analyst/Analyst, Systematic Strategies Group

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 $646.8 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, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São 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

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. Start date is flexible but ideally beginning May 2025.

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

Primary Responsibilities:

• Contribute to the research, development, and implementation of systematic investment strategies in various markets or to the development of the portfolio construction and risk management framework for our strategies
• Present research findings and participate in discussions in various SSG investment forums
• Partner with colleagues in the SSG to conduct periodic reviews of existing investment strategies and processes
• Partner with colleagues in the Investment Engineering and Analytics team to design and implement new tools and analytics modules
• Contribute to the management of our multi-asset systematic investment portfolio

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

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 2024 or later from an undergraduate or advanced degree program, in a quantitative discipline such as computer Science, economics, engineering, finance or math. Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline is preferred
• 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.
• Self-motivated, organized, flexible and adaptable to changing priorities and new challenges
• Candidates must exemplify CPP Investments’ guiding principles of high performance, integrity, and partnership.

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 Capital Markets and Factor Investing at CPP Investments.

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

Deadline: Sunday, October 27, 2024, 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.

Disclaimer:
CPP Investments does not accept resumes from employment placement agencies, head-hunters or recruitment suppliers that are not in a formal contractual arrangement with us. Our recruitment supplier arrangements are restricted to specific hiring needs and do not include this or other web-site job postings. Any resume or other information received from a supplier not approved by CPP Investments to provide resumes to this posting or web-site will be considered unsolicited and will not be considered.  CPP Investments will not pay any referral, placement or other fee for the supply of such unsolicited resumes or information.