Senior Intern Analyst, PhD, Systematic Strategies Group

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 $646.8 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, 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 Department

The Capital Markets and Factor Investing Department (CMF) invests assets globally in public equities, fixed income securities, currencies, commodities, and derivatives, and manages the engagement of investment managers and co-investments in public market securities.

The Systematic Strategies Group (SSG) group within the Capital Markets and Factor Investing department develops and manages systematic investment strategies across global markets spanning equities, fixed income, commodities, currencies, and volatility. SSG invests in absolute return strategies as well as long-only strategies, designed to provide a diversifying return stream to the total fund.

We are looking for a Sr. Intern Analyst within the Systematic Strategies Group in Toronto for Summer 2025 starting in May 2025.

What you’ll do

• Support the team’s research into systematic trading strategies across multiple asset classes (rates, equities, currencies and commodities)
• Construct monitoring and forecasting tools in order to synthesize various economic and financial data sets
• Drive the adaptation of data analytic tools and econometric techniques both within and outside the Systematic Strategies Group
• Apply academic research in a practical setting
• Other duties as required

Qualifications

Who we’re looking for

A PhD student with strong skills in data analytics and/or econometric modeling. We prefer a student in the dissertation stage who would like to gain industry experience. The successful candidate will be a strong team player, exhibit creative problem-solving skills, and approach challenging assignments with enthusiasm and intellectual curiosity.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a PhD degree with a specialization in Finance, Mathematical and Computational Finance, Economics, Computer Science, Statistics or related quantitative disciplines– preferably individuals in the dissertation stage of their program who would like to gain industry experience or are curious about the private sector.
• Experience working with financial and/or economic data
• Strong programming skills, preferably in Python and SQL.
• Desire to gain exposure to practical research related to financial markets, portfolio management, portfolio construction and asset pricing
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, intellectual curiosity and ability to learn new concepts
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work in teams
• Successful candidates must exemplify CPP Investments’ Guiding Principles of High Performance, Integrity, and Partnership

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).

Deadline: November 10, 2024 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.