La Caisse

La Caisse runs a single, year-round internship program for current students rather than a discrete summer-analyst cohort. 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.

La Caisse's internship page is explicit about eligibility: interns must be "available and authorized to work full time in Canada (35 hours per week). Note that you must possess the necessary legal permits and documents prior to the recruitment process." The wording places the burden of work authorization on the applicant before the recruitment process begins — La Caisse does not state that it sponsors work permits for the internship program.

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.

La Caisse runs its internship recruitment on a rolling, season-based timeline rather than against fixed annual deadlines. The internship page sets out the cycle:

• Three four-month seasons each year — Winter (January to April), Summer (May to August), Fall (September to December)
• Corporate Services internships are posted four to five months in advance — for a May start, recruitment begins in mid-December
• Investment, quantitative fintech, and accounting internships are posted eight to nine months in advance — for a May start, recruitment begins in mid-August
• No fixed application deadline; postings are removed once enough applications have been received

The practical consequence is timing-of-search, not timing-of-submission. For a Summer (May) investment internship, the posting goes up around mid-August of the prior year and the queue fills on a rolling basis. A student following the standard North-American campus cycle — applying in the fall for the following summer — will be searching too late for the investment pools; the firm posts ahead of the conventional sell-side timeline, not alongside it.

La Caisse — the operating name since June 2025 for Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) — is Canada's second-largest pension fund. 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.

Yes. La Caisse currently has 2 open internship and graduate roles on Jorb AI: summer internships, insight programs, graduate schemes, and early-career positions across the United Kingdom and Singapore. Postings update continuously as new roles are added and filled.

La Caisse has open internship and graduate roles in the United Kingdom and Singapore. Specific offices and program structure (summer vs year-round, internship vs graduate scheme) vary by region; check individual postings for details.

Applications to La Caisse go through the official careers site. Each role on this page links directly to the specific application. La Caisse does not use third-party submission services.