Quantitative Finance Internship

@ CPP Investments

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, including public equity, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and fixed income. The CPP Fund is projected to reach $3.6 trillion in assets by 2050. With headquarters in Toronto and offices worldwide, CPP Investments offers stimulating work in a fast-paced, intellectually challenging environment with accelerated exposure and global career development opportunities.

The organization promotes a hybrid-flexible work environment emphasizing in-person collaboration and a culture rooted in integrity, partnership, and high performance. If you have a passion for performance, value collegiality, and work with high integrity, invest your career here.

Job Description

CPP Investments is recruiting interns for the Quantitative Finance Internship for the Winter 2026 term. This four-month internship beginning in January 2026 will allow students to explore opportunities within quantitative finance across several teams.

Participating Teams

• Quantitative Models, Research – Total Fund Management: Design portfolio management platform components, collaborate with quant researchers and portfolio managers, assess modeling impact, and develop analytics and quantitative models.
• Public Credit – Credit Investments: Utilize Python and SQL to enhance analytical tools, improve risk reporting, analyze credit markets, and conduct ad-hoc portfolio analysis.
• Credit Strategy – Credit Investments: Assist in developing portfolio strategy, build monitoring tools, create frameworks for relative value, and integrate market research.

Qualifications

Current undergraduate or graduate student in STEM, business, finance, economics, mathematics, engineering, computer science, or related field, graduating August 2026 or later. Strong academic performance. Excellent problem-solving, analytical, written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment. Programming experience in Python is strongly preferred, with exposure to languages like TypeScript, SQL, C++, Java, R, or VBA considered an asset. An interest in finance, investment management, capital markets, modern portfolio theory, and quantitative techniques is essential.

Application Details

Include a cover letter, resume, and transcripts by September 9, 2025 at 11:59pm EST. Visit our Linkedin Career Page or Follow us on Linkedin for more details.

Key skills/competency

Quantitative Finance Internship, quantitative models, Python, SQL, portfolio analytics, risk reporting, market analysis, financial instruments, programming, data analysis