Analyst/associate, Systematic Strategies Group

2 days ago

Toronto, Canada CPP Investments Full time

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**:
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, 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 rigor, 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 positions at the Analyst/Associate level for our group, particularly for our Quantitative Equity 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. 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.

**Role Specific Accountabilities**:

- Contribute to the research, development, and implementation of systematic investment 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
- Assist in the day-to-day management of the portfolio, such as by assessing portfolio positioning relative to the current investment views and monitoring risk allocation and exposure
- Stay abreast of relevant academic and applied research as well as general macroeconomic and market conditions
- Collaborate with groups across CMF as well as other departments at CPP Investments on various investment related initiatives

**Qualifications**:

- Advanced degree (e.g., MSc, MFE, P

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