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. As a professional investment management organization, CPP Investments invests the funds of the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to help ensure its financial sustainability 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 $3.6 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

The Credit Strategy Group is part of the Credit Investments (CI) department at CPP Investments. CI manages $78 billion in assets and is responsible for all CPP Investments, public and private credit investments globally. CI provides debt financing solutions across the entire credit structure, including term loans, high-yield bonds, mezzanine lending, structured products and other solutions for borrowers in all sectors. The Credit Strategy group within CI seeks to enhance the risk-adjusted returns of the CI portfolio through portfolio construction techniques that enable the CI portfolio to deliver the total fund’s desired credit exposure as well as maximize alpha generation across relative value factors such as sector, geography, rating, etc.

We are currently recruiting an intern analyst in the Credit Strategy Group, for a four-month internship starting internship from September to December 2025. Candidates in an undergraduate program that will be graduating in April 2026 or later are eligible to apply.

Primary Responsibilities

• Assist in the build-out of the portfolio strategy function of the recently created Credit Investments department at CPP Investments
• Develop proprietary portfolio construction and monitoring tools to enhance management of the CI portfolio
• Assist in the development of a relative value framework within CI to improve the effectiveness with which CI delivers a global portfolio
  
  

Other Responsibilities

• Analyzing specific investment opportunities as it relates to fit within the overall CI portfolio
• Partner with other departments at CPP Investments (e.g. Total Fund Management, Finance, Analytics and Risk and Capital Markets and Factor Investing) to advance initiatives such as enhanced integration of bottom-up and top-down decision making, improved reporting and incorporation of capital markets inputs into the evaluation of prospective investment opportunities
  
  

Qualifications

• The ideal candidate will be graduating from an undergraduate or graduate program in April 2026 (or later) and is working towards a degree in math, engineering, business or computer science.
• Experience with programming languages (such as Python, C++/Java, R, VBA).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and an interest in working in a dynamic collaborative environment.
• Interest in finance/investment management.
• Ability to prioritize work and manage multiple responsibilities simultaneously.
• Excellent academic performance.
• Knowledge in managing databases (such as MySQL, SQL Server or Oracle) would be a plus.
• 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) by May 19th, 2025, 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.