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. As a professional investment management organization, CPP Investments invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure its financial sustainability 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 $3.6 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 Total Fund Management Department
In Total Fund Management ("TFM"), we are building the capabilities to enable a consistent framework for the long-term management of the firm's investment strategy. TFM consists of five groups: Beta, Collateral, & Liquidity Management, Portfolio Design & Construction, Research, Trading and Strategy & Business Management.
In partnership with a diverse team of professionals, the Research group seeks to ensure TFM’s research capabilities in one centralized team, produce focused and impactful research, develop robust and consistent tools, and operate as efficiently as possible.
We are currently recruiting an Analyst to join the Research team within the Total Fund Management department for a 12-month period beginning either Sept 2025 or earlier.
What you’ll do:
- Contribute to research on investment returns and risk within a global multi-asset context by applying statistical analysis and numerical analysis techniques, with implications for total Fund design and portfolio management decisions.
- Work in collaboration with colleagues to prepare high-quality research and methodology recommendations for TFM’s Senior team and Research Council.
- Contribute to the enhancement of research tools.
- Be mentored by experienced team members who will aid you to tap into your expertise and blend it with new skills learned on the job.
Qualifications
- 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.
- You are working towards or have completed a degree with a specialization in Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, or related quantitative disciplines.
- You have programming and statistical modeling experience in Python, MATLAB, EViews, or R. Experience working with large data sets or financial/economic data is an asset.
- You would like to gain industry experience in financial markets, portfolio management, portfolio construction, and asset pricing.
- You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, intellectual curiosity, and the ability to learn new concepts.
- You demonstrate strong interpersonal skills with solid verbal and written communication skills.
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) by June 8th, 2025, at 11:59pm EST.
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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.
