La Caisse

The internship page states internships are typically four months long – some are eight – and run in three seasons: Winter (January to April), Summer (May to August), and Fall (September to December). Postings come in two formats: traditional postings for one defined internship, and "pool" postings covering several internships in the same field, most commonly investment, quantitative fintech, and accounting pools.

Interns are placed across the same eight functional families the full-time business uses: Investment, Investment Support, Finance and Accounting, Information Technology, Operations, Human Resources, Communications, and Legal Affairs (careers page). Each cohort gets a paired team sponsor, paraprofessional finance training, expert panels, and personalized career-support meetings. Because recruitment for investment and quantitative roles opens eight to nine months before the internship begins, a student aiming for a summer placement is committing a full academic year ahead – well before most North-American sell-side summer cycles open.

For an international student, this is a hard gate rather than a deferred conversation. A candidate without Canadian work authorization – study-permit work eligibility, a Post-Graduation Work Permit, permanent residence, or citizenship – is not in scope, regardless of fit. Roles in the firm's offices outside Canada (Toronto, New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Mexico City, New Delhi, São Paulo, and others) are governed by each office's local employment law and would need to be checked role by role on the specific posting.

Its 2025 results release reports $517 billion in net assets as at 31 December 2025 and a 9.3% return for the year; it manages contributions for 48 depositors representing more than six million Quebecers (Wikipedia). Three things shape the early-career experience:

• A dual public-mission and global-investor mandate: investments span stock and bond markets, infrastructure, real estate (including the former Ivanhoé Cambridge portfolio rebranded into La Caisse in 2025), and private equity, run from Montréal and Québec City as operational hubs with offices in Toronto, New York, London, Paris, Singapore, Sydney, Mexico City, New Delhi, and São Paulo.
• An institutional-investor (not sell-side) early-career structure: the careers page lists eight functional families – Investment, Investment Support, Finance and Accounting, IT, Operations, HR, Communications, Legal – across more than 32 named professions, closer to a global pension or sovereign-wealth model than an investment-bank coverage tree.
• A three-season, off-cycle hiring calendar tied to early posting windows for investment roles, so the internship program does not run head-to-head with the standard North-American summer-analyst recruiting timeline.

For a candidate weighing pension and asset-management houses against sell-side seats, La Caisse is one of a small set of large institutional allocators that hire Canadian-authorized early-career talent at scale across a wide function set. The differentiator is not deal flow; it is direct exposure to a global allocator's portfolio construction, on an unusually early decision timeline.