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About the Role
Join our Quantitative Strategies and Research (QSR) team within Capital Markets at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan as an intern. This role offers the opportunity to explore and build new systematic investment strategies using quantitative models, data science, statistics, and programming. You will contribute to research projects, collaborate with team members, and present your findings.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to QSR’s broad research and development initiatives using Matlab and Python.
- Apply quantitative techniques (statistics, machine learning, optimization) to test investment and portfolio hypotheses.
- Review, critique, and implement research papers from academia or the practitioner community.
- Present and discuss results with the team and gather feedback.
- Work with various datasets, including sourcing, cleaning, visualization, and predictive modeling.
- Propose and test original ideas on real-world data.
- Gain experience in asset classes such as equities, fixed income, currencies, and commodities.
- Contribute to the development and optimization of portfolio implementation infrastructure and analytical tools.
Requirements
- Must be enrolled in a Master’s or Ph.D. program or an upper-year undergraduate program with a strong quantitative research and/or technology foundation (e.g., math, stats, computer science, engineering, economics).
- Demonstrated passion for research through academic work (papers, projects, theses) or personal projects.
- Broad programming experience, particularly in scientific programming (Matlab and Python).
- Curiosity and interest in applying research and technology to understand markets and build portfolio systems.
- Must be returning to studies after the work term.
- Must be legally entitled to work in the country where the role is located.
Skills
- Quantitative research
- Data science
- Statistics
- Programming
- Matlab
- Python
- Machine learning
- Optimization
- Data sourcing
- Data cleaning
- Data visualization
- Predictive modeling
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Internship
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Intern
Education Level
- Master's degree
- Ph.D. degree
- Undergraduate degree
Salary/Compensations
- $30 - $36 per hour
Benefits
- Opportunities for professional growth and development
- Lunch and learns
- Student led team building events
- Employee discount programs (Edvantage and Perkopolis)
About the Company
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan is an innovation-driven team within Capital Markets.
- We manage a broad and diversified portfolio using quantitative models.
- Capital Markets is a dynamic team of over 80 investment professionals working across liquid markets.
- At Ontario Teachers', diversity is a core strength, reflected in our hiring practices and culture.
- We foster inclusion through our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion strategy and Employee Resource Groups (ERGs).
Equal Opportunity
- We are building an inclusive and equitable workplace where our talent is respected, accepted and empowered to be themselves.
- Accommodations are available upon request for candidates with a disability taking part in the recruitment process and once hired.