MIPC Speaker Series - Driving Data and Technology Innovation within a Pension Fund

As part of the Speaker Series for the McGill International Portfolio Challenge, we invite a leading executive from one of our sponsors, who represent among the largest companies in the Finance industry, to speak about a hot topic in institutional finance and asset management.

On November 3, we are pleased to host Raheel Janjua, Director of Innovation at CPP Investments, to talk about how large institutional asset managers, such as pension funds, including Canada's largest, integrate technological innovation to enhance portfolio value creation.

CPP Investments is a professional investment management organization that invests the funds not needed by the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) to pay current benefits on behalf of 20 million contributors and beneficiaries. In order to build a diversified portfolio of CPP assets, they invest in public equities, private equities, real estate, infrastructure and fixed income instruments. Headquartered in Toronto, with offices in Hong Kong, London, Luxembourg, Mumbai, New York City, São Paulo and Sydney, CPP Investments is governed and managed independently of the Canada Pension Plan and at arm’s length from governments. As of June 30, 2020, the CPP Fund totaled C$434.4 billion.