Paul Ebner

Paul Ebner is a managing director and head of quantitative strategies and risk premia (QSRP) for the Capital Markets and Factor Investing Department (CMF) at CPPIB. As head of QSRP, Paul is responsible for implementing and managing a scalable CMF portfolio that integrates multi-horizon systematic risk premia and alpha strategies spanning multiple asset classes.  This includes managing quantitative strategies and the risk premia portfolio as well as developing and deploying state-of-the-art production processes and analytics for CMF.  Previous to this role, Paul was senior portfolio manager and head of portfolio engineering for quantitative equity strategies at CPPIB. In this role, Paul was responsible for the daily operation and infrastructure running the quantitative equity strategies. He has been associated with the firm since June 2016 and is a CFA charterholder.

Prior to joining CPPIB, Paul was a director and senior portfolio manager of global equity market neutral strategies at BlackRock, Inc. and a member of the scientific active equity team. His tenure at Blackrock spanned 12 years including his years at Barclay’s Global Investors, which merged with the firm in 2009. While at Barclays Global Investors, Paul was responsible for helping to launch and manage new equity hedge funds for the advanced equity strategies research team. Prior to this, he served as a trader on the fixed income repo desk at Salomon Smith Barney. Paul received a bachelor’s degree, with Honors, in political science from Davidson College in 1998, a Diploma in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1999, and a master’s degree in public policy from the University of California at Berkeley in 2004.