Analyst, Credit Strategy Research and Portfolio Construction

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. 

Job Description

As an Analyst, you will be responsible for conducting basic investment research, assisting in building 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

The Credit Strategy Group within CI maximizes alpha generation by managing asset allocation across a broad credit investment mandate, aligning department risk and return expectations, and leveraging global credit market insights to inform asset allocation. The team also develops and maintains the technology and analytic tools essential for efficient capital deployment and informed investment decisions.

Accountabilities:

• Participate in the strategic asset allocation process. This key role includes financial/statistical modeling, portfolio analysis, and portfolio construction work related to long-term asset allocation.
• Help maintain the process for capturing key strategy attributes and ensure consistent calibration across active strategies.
• Contribute to the research and development of investment strategies.
• In collaboration with senior team, develop, test, and integrate further financial models in python to better perform performance attribution, risk analysis, pricing, and scenario analysis.
• Assist in creating management and committee materials, including memos and presentations as needed under guidance.
• Identify gaps in current tools and processes under guidance and collaborate with senior team members to prioritize improvements and developments.
• Work directly with partners to develop, test, integrate, and implement solutions for transformational initiatives
• Experiment with machine learning and large language models to determine whether and how they can be used in the investment process.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in relevant field
• An advanced degree is an asset
• Up to 3 years of relevant work experience
• Knowledge of/experience with active investment management or asset allocation processes is a plus.
• Strong computer/technical skills – Python, SQL, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint (Any of Javascript, C++, Rust, and R is a plus)
• Solid verbal and written communication skills

Additional Information

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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.