Mahdi Lotfinezhad, Ph.D.
Portfolio Manager, Active Equities-Investment Science at CPP Investments | Investissements RPC- Claim this Profile
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Experience
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CPP Investments | Investissements RPC
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Canada
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Financial Services
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300 - 400 Employee
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Portfolio Manager, Active Equities-Investment Science
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Mar 2023 - Present
Toronto, Ontario, Canada Private Equity research AI/ML for alpha strategies and asset allocation Quant macro modeling
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QuadFi
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Canada
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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CRO/CTO and Head of Science Lab
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Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Hired and managed Data Science and software engineering teams Managed an end-to-end customer lending platform go live in 2022 Implemented underwriting policies (pricing and risk) for consumer loans Developed/managed AI/ML research/pipelines for forecasting consumer loan defaults
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CPP Investments | Investissements RPC
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Canada
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Financial Services
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300 - 400 Employee
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Portfolio Manager, Real Assets Strategy
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Sep 2020 - Oct 2021
Macro-economic modeling Quantitative cashflow modeling Design of Pricing, Return, and Risk framework across real assets: Infrastructure, Real Estate, Power & Renewables, and Energy & Resources
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Portfolio Manager, Alpha Generation Lab
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Jan 2020 - Sep 2020
Systematic Alpha in Credit Machine Learning Quantum Machine Learning (Applications)
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Portfolio Manager-Quant Research
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May 2018 - Jan 2020
Toronto, Canada Area Quant Research Factor Investing Portfolio Construction and Optimization Asset Allocation
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Senior Associate, Quantitative Research
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Sep 2016 - May 2018
Toronto, Canada Area Quantitative Research Factor Investment and Modeling Asset Allocation
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Senior Associate, Portfolio Management
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Sep 2014 - Sep 2016
Toronto, Canada Area Portfolio Management Rebalancing/Optimization
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Scotiabank
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Canada
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Manager, Economic Capital and Capital Efficiency
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Nov 2013 - Sep 2014
Stress testing Capital, CVA, and Credit exposure Modeling
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Senior Manager, Risk Modeling and Measurement
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Oct 2012 - Nov 2013
Toronto, Canada Area Counterparty credit risk analysis (Potential Future Exposure and CVA) Stress testing: Capital, CVA P&L, and Spot Exposure
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Manager, Risk Modeling and Measurement
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2010 - Oct 2012
Market and Credit Risk Analysis and Measurement
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University of Toronto
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Canada
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Higher Education
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700 & Above Employee
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Postdoctoral Fellow
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2008 - 2010
Computer Science Department Algorithm design for large scale networks
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Ph.D. Student
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2003 - 2008
Stochastic control of communication networks
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Education
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University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
Master of Finance (MFin) -
University of Toronto
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering -
University of Toronto
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Electrical and Computer Engineering