Quantitative Finance Internship Winter 2027

Purpose. Performance. People. Joining CPP Investments means joining one of the world’s most admired and respected institutional investors to drive a single mandate: to deliver strong, sustainable returns for generations of Canadians. With a long-term horizon and global reach, we deploy capital at scale across public and private markets. Our size, stability, and disciplined investment philosophy allow us to pursue complex opportunities and build enduring partnerships worldwide.

For our people, this means meaningful work with tangible impact, real opportunity, and collaboration with exceptional colleagues who value partnership and performance. Here, you’ll contribute to outcomes that matter alongside team members committed to excellence and shared success.

We are recruiting Quantitative Finance Interns for the Winter 2027 term. This four-month internship, beginning in January 2027, offers students the opportunity to gain hands‑on experience supporting investment professionals across a range of quantitative finance teams.

The Public Credit (PC) group invests in investment and sub-investment grade, public, single-name credits (such as corporate credits in an individual company) and credit indexes globally across all sectors. The group invests in liquid credit products across the capital structure with a focus on products with higher credit ratings. Instruments include corporate bonds, hard‑currency sovereign debt, credit exchange‑traded funds, credit derivatives, asset‑backed securities, residential mortgage‑backed securities and collateralized loan obligations.

PC also manages the Supplementary Credit Pool portfolio, a passive portfolio of high grade global corporate bonds.

• Leverage programming skills in Python and SQL to develop and enhance proprietary analytical tools.
• Enhance risk reporting and performance analysis tools.
• Collaborate with portfolio managers and the Quantitative team to improve models.
• Monitor credit markets and macro environment to contribute to research and trade ideas.
• Conduct ad‑hoc analysis on portfolio management, market structure, and investment opportunities.

The Quantitative Models team within TFM develops and delivers advanced analytical models and tools - spanning risk modeling, portfolio optimization, and asset allocation - to support data investment decisions at the total fund level.

• Contribute to implementing components of investment models and portfolio analytics
• Collaborate with quant researchers and portfolio managers to clarify specifications and interpret results
• Assess and communicate the impact of modeling changes on portfolio metrics
• Contribute to maintaining existing models and tools managed by the team

Dynamic Portfolio Management designs and optimizes the total portfolio by leveraging diversification, investment selection, and tactical positioning, while managing factor exposures and global rebalancing to maximize long‑term returns without undue risk.

• Under the guidance of senior team members, contribute to the design and implementation of portfolio management tools within DPM.
• Participate in the design and development of analytic enhancements, to support investment decisions
• Assist in preparing presentation materials and presenting investment recommendations.
• Communicate complex analysis in clear, tailored formats, synthesizing actionable insights for the team.
• Stay up to date with markets and macroeconomic trends to identify opportunities and risks related to fund exposures.

The team works in partnership with groups across TFM and is responsible for the delivery of the total Fund’s Equity and Fixed Income Balancing Portfolios, collateral optimization, leverage, and public market liquidity portfolios.

• Helping our team with day‑to‑day portfolio management, collateral and/or financing activities on the desk, such as…