Senior Multi-Asset Portfolio Manager

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CIBC Global Asset Management (CGAM) is one of Canada’s largest asset management firms with approximately $300 billion in assets under management and over forty‑five years of experience designing and implementing client solutions. We lead in providing a broad range of high‑quality global investment management solutions to retail and institutional clients.

Our assets include those under institutional money management for pension funds, endowments and insurance funds, private wealth management, and those that are part of the CIBC family of mutual funds such as CIBC Mutual Funds, Renaissance Investments family of funds, and the CIBC family of managed portfolio solutions such as Managed Portfolio Services (MPS), Personal Portfolio Services (PPS), Frontiers Pools, and Axiom Portfolios.

At CIBC, our goal is to help our clients achieve what matters to them. Our philosophy is based on the CIBC values of Trust, Teamwork, and Accountability and we achieve results for our clients through an in‑depth disciplined investing approach based on rigor and research.

Reporting to the CIO and Managing Director of Multi-Asset & Currency Management, this role is responsible for identifying, constructing, and managing a range of innovative “Best in Class” investment solutions that make a significant contribution to establishing and sustaining CGAM as a global leader in absolute return investing.

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. Details on your work arrangement (proportion of on‑site and remote work) will be discussed at the time of your interview.

Portfolio Management
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Develop, implement and manage an innovative absolute return “quanta mental” top‑down cross‑asset investment strategy that identifies and arbitrages relative opportunities across a broad universe of equity country and sector indexes, sovereign and credit fixed‑income markets, currencies, and commodities. Design and build an alpha engine and supporting risk management and portfolio construction infrastructure in partnership with quantitative team colleagues. Ensure the developed strategy is diversifying, accretive, and has the requisite performance features to drive client demand (including, but not limited to, consistently top quartile performance within a representative peer universe) and is complementary to the firm’s existing single‑asset‑class capabilities.

Strategy Innovation
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Identify and collaborate with CGAM colleagues to design, launch, and manage other innovative and diversifying “quanta mental” absolute return investment strategies. These may include, but are not limited to, commodities, capital structure and merger / event‑driven arbitrage, relative value alpha strategies in volatility and dispersion, and strategies that arbitrage index mechanics, forced flows, rebalancing patterns, concentration dynamics, and liquidity distortions that result from passive flows.

Team Support & Collaboration
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Support and mentor PMs across CGAM’s investment teams in the design of enhancements to their investment processes and risk management and portfolio construction infrastructure and procedures. Actively mentor less experienced PMs to ensure CGAM portfolio management practices are consistently Best in Class.

Business Development Activities
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Provide support to the firm’s Business Development activities in the build‑out of a world‑class absolute return investment platform. This includes participation at conferences, webinars, podcasts, and meetings, as well as authorship of relevant white‑paper research notes. Particular focus on Quebec.

You are a certified professional. An undergraduate degree is required; a graduate degree in business, finance and/or economics is desired. CFA and/or CIM designations…