Associate, Portfolio Construction Research

**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. With more than $600 billion in assets under management, CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that globally invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure it is financially sustainable 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 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.

As an Associate on the Systematic Portfolio Construction team, you will be responsible for conducting investment research, assisting in building robust recommendations, and developing investment strategies. As a part of the team, you will also play an active role in supporting initiatives that deliver on the group’s broader objectives.

**Team Description**

Our Active Equities mandate is to deliver alpha in the global public equity markets. The department leverages CPP Investments structural competitive advantages and Active Equities sources of edge to exploit alpha opportunities through proprietary company specific fundamental research. Our fundamental insights yield a collection of high-conviction, single-company investments that are assembled into a highly concentrated long/short, market-neutral portfolio**via an optimization process that aims to remove unintended factor exposures. The result is a portfolio with maximum exposure to our proprietary research and little else.

The Portfolio Construction & Risk (PC&R) group supports the Active Equity department with portfolio analytics, construction and implementation, and risk optimization. They also research and implement systematic portfolios and manage the infrastructure, data, and tools that empower the department’s investment edge.

Within the PC&R group, the Systematic Portfolio Construction team is responsible for researching and designing fundamentally driven systematic portfolios, while building a platform to facilitate their implementation. As well, the team undertakes various alpha capture initiatives to enhance the performance of portfolios managed through the platform.

**Accountabilities**
- Design and build infrastructure related to alpha research, portfolio construction research and optimization methods
- Research alpha generation techniques for stock selection using fundamental data and theory
- Analyze global long/short portfolios using quantitative techniques
- Evaluate portfolio implementation and execution strategies
- Conduct research on different portfolio construction and risk modeling approaches

**Qualifications**
- Masters or PhD in finance, statistics, economics, engineering or other quantitative discipline
- Experience with quantitative stock selection strategies and multi-factor risk models
- Strong programming expertise in Python or similar language
- Experience using SQL or other relational databases
- Experience with financial datasets would be an asset
- Detail oriented
- Strong problem solving and quantitative skills with demonstrated intellectual curiosity
- Solid verbal and written communication skills
- Exemplifies our Guiding Principles of Integrity, Partnership and High Performance

**Additional Information**
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