Analyst, External Portfolio Management

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 $675 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.

We are recruiting for a 12-month Analyst in our External Portfolio Management (“EPM”) group within the Capital Markets & Factor Investing department (“CMF”). EPM is a group within CMF responsible for engaging and monitoring external managers in public markets across all trading styles, asset classes, and geographies. The EPM group oversees a portfolio of externally managed funds and separate accounts and has relationships with over 60 of the world’s top asset managers. Fund mandates include public market equities, credit, interest rates, currencies and commodities. Learn more about our Capital Markets Investments. This contract will start in July 2025.  

What you’ll do

• Contribute to research and formulate views on active investment strategies in public markets and their performance under various market conditions.
• Meet and diligence hedge fund managers across various strategies and asset classes.
• Participate in EPM’s investment and strategy recommendation meetings and contribute to the investment decision making process.
• Participate in research projects related to top-down portfolio strategy and construction; including factor modeling, portfolio optimization and risk factor analytics.
• Participate in work related to advancing the fund’s framework in public markets.
• Support day-to-day activities including ad hoc requests on datasets, searches, evaluation of background materials, projects and research efforts.
• Support regular weekly research meetings.

Who We’re Looking for

• Recently graduated from an Undergraduate or Master’s degree in Business, Mathematical Finance, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, or Engineering. Quantitative discipline preferred but not a requirement.
• Quantitative background with programming experience in Python, VBA, Java and/or Matlab considered an asset but not required.
• Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Access, Outlook), Bloomberg and CapIQ.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Strong qualitative and analytical skills.
• Passion for investing and a keen interest in capital markets.
• This position is ideal for those seeking to build a career in, or making career switch into, the Investment Management industry.

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: Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 11:59PM

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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.