Company Description
Make an impact at a global and dynamic investment organization
When you join CPP Investments, you are joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable for generations of working and retired Canadians.
CPP Investments invests across regions and asset classes to build a globally diversified portfolio. It holds assets in public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income, and the CPP Fund is projected to reach $3 trillion in assets by 2050. The organization is headquartered in Toronto with offices in Hong Kong, London, Mumbai, New York City, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Sydney.
CPP Investments successfully attracts, selects, and retains talented individuals from top-tier institutions worldwide. Join our team for access to:
- Stimulating work in a fast-paced and intellectually challenging environment
- Accelerated exposure and responsibility
- Global career development opportunities
- Diverse and inspiring colleagues and approachable leaders
- A hybrid-flexible work environment with an emphasis on in-person collaboration
- A culture rooted in principles of integrity, partnership, and high performance
- An organization with an important social purpose that positively impacts lives
If you have a passion for performance, value a collegial and collaborative culture, and approach work with the highest integrity, invest your career here.
Job Description
The Capital Markets and Factor Investing (CMF) department plays a vital role as the Fund scales to $1 trillion. We enable, diversify, and expand the Fund’s ability to maximize long-term investment returns without undue risk. We deliver extensive breadth and flexibility across global public markets providing scalable, liquid, and diversifying returns through our Absolute Return and Long-only Strategies, our targeted customized solutions, and our distinctive capital markets expertise.
The Systematic Strategies Group (SSG) is the internal investing unit of CMF. SSG develops and manages systematic investment strategies across global markets, spanning equities, fixed income, currencies, commodities, credit, and volatility. We invest in absolute return strategies as well as long-only strategies, designed to provide a diversifying return stream to the total fund. Our strategies are scalable, liquid and capital efficient. They seek to capture various patterns of predictability observed in asset return behavior. Our goal is to be at the forefront in all aspects of a systematic investment process; this includes quantitative investment research, efficient implementation, effective risk measurement and management and robust portfolio construction. Towards this goal, we strive to foster a culture of intellectual rigour, innovation and above all, collaboration and partnership in our team.
Our portfolios as well as our teams are organized along asset class pods. We have pods focussing on equities, FICC (fixed income, currencies, and commodities), volatility and portfolio construction/risk. We are currently recruiting for two positions at the Associate level, one Associate for our Quantitative Equity team and one Associate for our Portfolio Construction & Risk team. The Quantitative Equity team develops state-of-the-art quantitative strategies across global equity markets and constructs robust portfolios of such strategies. As a part of our team, you will have the opportunity to contribute to in all aspects of the research, development, and implementation of our strategies. The Portfolio Construction & Risk team is responsible for the SSG portfolio design through the risk allocation across strategies developed in all the asset class pods, and to align it with SSG’s long term investment objectives. Please indicate any team preference in your cover letter when applying.
Our asset class pods are flexible, and there is substantial cross-group collaboration. Our culture ensures that you will be working in a highly collegial and nurturing environment. Over time, you will gain unparalleled experience in becoming an all-round systematic investor and risk-taker in a highly respected group.
Roles Specific Accountabilities
- Contribute to the research, development, and implementation of systematic equity strategies
- Present research findings and participate in discussions in various SSG investment forums
- Assist in the day-to-day management of the portfolios
- Partner with colleagues in the SSG to conduct periodic reviews of existing investment strategies and processes
- Contribute to the development and implementation of systematic multi-strategy portfolio allocations
- Assist in the day-to-day monitoring of the portfolio performance/risk to inform its design
- Apply cutting edge computational and econometric techniques to solve complex problems
- Stay abreast of relevant academic and applied research as well as general macroeconomic and market conditions
- Partner with colleagues in the Investment Engineering and Analytics team to design and implement new tools and analytics modules
- Collaborate with groups across CMF as well as other departments at CPP Investments on various investment related initiatives
Qualifications
- Graduate degree (MSc, MFE, PhD) in a quantitative discipline – knowledge of quantitative finance and economics will be an advantage
- Strong programming skills, preferably in Python
- Interest in developing systematic equity strategies; some experience in the area is preferred
- Experience with conducting empirical research and analysis of large data sets
- Interest in researching portfolio construction methodologies and risk models
- Familiarity with systematic investment strategies in multiple asset classes an advantage
- Good economic intuition and understanding of modern asset pricing/portfolio theory
- Passion for investing with a strong desire to keep learning
- Facility for mathematical and statistical methodologies applicable to quantitative investing
- Eagerness to embrace and contribute to a culture of intellectual rigour, innovation, and collaboration
- Ability to work independently and collaborate in a team environment
- Excellent attention to detail
- Self-motivated, organized, flexible and adaptable to changing priorities and new challenges
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Embody CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles of integrity, high performance, and partnership
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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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