Global Market Modeller

2 months ago

Montreal, Quebec, Canada PSP Investments Full time
About PSP Investments

PSP Investments is one of the largest pension fund managers in Canada, with $243.7 billion in net assets under management as of March 31, 2023.

We invest funds for public sector pension plans, the Canadian Armed Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Reserve Force. Our head office is located in Ottawa, with a main business office in Montreal. We also have offices in New York, London, and Hong Kong.

Our Approach

We work in the spirit of 'One PSP' to seize valuable opportunities and collaborate closely with some of the world's largest companies. At PSP, you'll join a motivated team of professionals who strive to grow our organization like never before.

Our Culture

We encourage our employees to grow, build strong relationships, contribute to inspiring investment platforms, and fuel them. We're committed to offering a culture that fosters collaboration and enables us to think beyond, interconnectedly. We empower our employees to express themselves, learn, experiment, share, and be part of a community that accepts diversity.

Your Team

As part of the Portfolio Management Group, the Dynamic Asset Allocation and Currency Management team aims to improve the likelihood that the strategic portfolio responds to PSP's value proposition. To achieve this, the team:

  • Determines the economic and financial scenario that feeds our medium-term market hypotheses.
  • Determines, implements, and manages the desired asset category and currency exposures for the target portfolio.
  • Leads the activities of portfolio rebalancing (assets and currencies) to ensure exposures are aligned with the desired global portfolio objectives.
  • Establishes and oversees dynamic asset allocation, global portfolio currency management (including dynamic currency management).
Your Role

As the Senior Portfolio Strategist, you will lead the Dynamic Asset Allocation and Currency Management team and contribute to the design of the team's quantitative processes and tools. You will also act as a cross-functional leader to develop internal global economic and financial scenarios to support investment recommendations and dynamic asset allocation and currency management activities for the global portfolio.

You will lead a team of professionals and report to the Director, Dynamic Asset Allocation and Currency Management, within the Portfolio Management Group.

Specifically, as the Senior Portfolio Strategist, you will:

  • Lead the development of internal models and global economic and financial scenarios (medium-term market hypotheses), including those used for various stress tests.
  • Identify and closely monitor global economic and financial conditions (monetary policy, equities, fixed income, commodities, and private assets).
  • Lead the design of periodic investment strategy perspectives on asset allocation and currency management for PSP's global portfolio, for the benefit of PSP's senior leadership and investment teams.
  • Produce, supervise, and coordinate the documents presented to investment committees and ensure clear communication.
  • Develop synergies between various teams within the Global Portfolio Management and PSP.
  • Act as an expert in global economic and financial scenarios to disseminate knowledge and influence PSP's investment groups to ensure alignment of public and private investments with the global portfolio's investments to position the portfolio on a three-year horizon.
  • Lead and develop PSP's relationships with external market strategists and leverage their ideas where necessary within the organization.
  • Contribute to the development of innovative quantitative tools and techniques to support the global portfolio's investment processes, decisions, and recommendations to investment committees.
What You'll Need

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

  • A Doctorate or Master's degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics, or a related field.
  • A minimum of 12 years of experience, including in financial research, economic and econometric research, asset management, private asset evaluation, and various quantitative methods applied to finance.
  • Several years of experience in high-level positions requiring leadership and influence skills.
  • An established network with influential market strategists.
  • Strong experience in asset allocation, investment strategy, and/or currency management.
  • Experience with programming languages, particularly EViews and econometric modeling.
  • Previous experience in a pension fund or similar institution is an asset.
  • CFA designation is an asset.
  • Fluency in English and French (or willingness to learn).

We offer a tailored experience for our employees and a competitive global compensation and benefits package designed to attract and retain diverse talent worldwide. Beyond salary and incentive pay, you'll have access to:

  • A career development investment.
  • Comprehensive collective insurance.
  • Unlimited access to virtual healthcare services and well-being programs.
  • Competitive pension plans.
  • Available vacation days from day one, with additional days for significant service anniversaries, and summer afternoons off.
  • Inclusive parental leave policy: up to 26 weeks for primary caregivers, 5 weeks for partners.
  • A hybrid work model with a mix of in-office and remote days.

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