• Job Description

  Req#: P14225

  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, 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.

  Job Description

  We are recruiting a Campus Contract in the External Portfolio Management (EPM) group of the Capital Markets and Factor Investing department for a 12-month contract, from June 2024 – May 2025. The EPM group engages and monitors external managers in public markets across investment strategies, trading styles, asset classes and geographies. This position will be located in the Funds Selection team within the EPM group.

  Role Specific Accountabilities:

  • Support the day-to-day monitoring and analysis of existing external managers (including building robust and flexible tools to support this).
  • Participate in research projects related to top-down portfolio strategy and construction; factor modeling, portfolio optimization, risk factors
  • Support day-to-day activities including ad hoc request on datasets, searches and evaluation of background materials to projects and research efforts.
  • Contribute to research and formulate views on Hedge Fund strategies and their performance in various macroeconomic regimes
  • Support the regular weekly research meetings
  • Participate in EPM investment and strategy recommendation meetings and contribute to investment decision making process

  Qualifications

  We look for candidates that have a strong track record of academic success while balancing extracurricular activities, a strong interest in the financial markets and portfolio management as well as good communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills. In addition, the most successful candidates often combine energy, enthusiasm, and intellectual curiosity, with a demonstrated interest in investing.

  If you possess the following, we’d like to hear from you:

  • Recent graduate from an undergraduate or advanced degree program in quantitative discipline, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering, Finance and Math or other quantitative field with a strong interest in finance
  • Quantitative background with proven programming experience in Python and VBA
  • Proficiency in MS Office applications (Access, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint) and Bloomberg
  • Strong quantitative skills
  • This role is ideal for students eager to build a career in, or making a switch to, the Investment Management industry
  • Demonstrates our Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

  Additional Information

  To apply, please include a cover letter, resume and transcripts (full unofficial version) by November 17th, 2023 at 8:00AM HKT

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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.

  Mandatory Vaccine Policy

  All employees in the Toronto, Sydney and Hong Kong 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.

• About the company

  1 billion between 2010 and 2014 alone. As of June 30, 2020, the CPP Investment Board manages over C$434 billion in investment assets for the Canada Pension Plan on behalf of 20 million Canadians.

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