Ivy Pei

Toronto → Berkeley

Ivy Pei

I'm an MBA candidate at UC Berkeley Haas with a background in quantitative credit investing at Canadian pension funds.

At Haas, I am developing work in investing, product, and venture. Outside the work, I make time for writing, painting, and golf.

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Current
UC Berkeley Haas MBA
Previous
CPP Investments / HOOPP
Based in
Berkeley, California
Black-and-white portrait of Ivy Pei smiling and adjusting her glasses

Professional background

Education & Credentials.

  1. Current

    UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business

    MBA / Expected 2028

    Haas Venture Capital Club and Haas Entrepreneurship Association
  2. 2022 - 2024

    Rotman School of Management

    Master of Finance

    1st Place, 2024 CQA Investment Challenge
  3. 2015 - 2019

    University of Toronto

    Honours BSc, Statistics and Economics

    1st Place, 2018 TD Market Risk Modelling Case Competition

Professional Credentials

Completed professional qualifications

  • CQFCertificate in Quantitative Finance
  • FRMFinancial Risk Manager
  1. Toronto, Canada

    CPP Investments

    Associate, Public Credit

    Worked on a public credit portfolio within a 30-person team, combining bottom-up credit work with macro context and scenario-based risk models.

    • $15BCo-managed a public credit portfolio.
    • ResearchConducted credit research across utilities, REITs, and materials.
    • AI toolBuilt an AI-native credit-rating tool for structured credit research and assessment.
    Ivy Pei with colleagues at CPP Investments in Toronto
    CPP Investments / Toronto
  2. Toronto, Canada

    Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan

    Senior Analyst, Risk & Model Validation

    Product owner for in-house stress-testing and pricing engines, with experience spanning back-office business analytics through the middle office. This informs a systems-level view of financial-institution workflows and infrastructure.

    • 10+Led cross-functional initiatives across pricing, analytics, and technology partners.
    • Multi-assetDeveloped and validated risk models across public and private markets.
    • Private marketsTranslated illiquid exposures into tail-risk and downside scenarios.
    • PortfolioConnected model outputs with investment-team risk limits and decisions.

Selected result

1st Place— CQA Investment Challenge

Chicago Quantitative Alliance (CQA) Investment Challenge · 2024

We built a macro-driven equity portfolio process that made the investment view, exposures, and trade-offs explicit.

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CQA participants and mentors at a 2024 community gathering
Rotman MFin team / CQA community gathering, 2024

The colorful Me

Writing, painting, and golf.

Outside investing, I keep a practice of writing, painting, and golf.

Copy study by Ivy Pei after Flowers and Mirror by Abbott Fuller Graves
Flowers and Mirror

A copy study after Flowers and Mirror by Abbott Fuller Graves (1859-1936). The pairing stages a familiar vanitas tension: flowers hold beauty at its fullest, already touched by time, while the mirror returns the gaze to the viewer. The study asks for a slower look at transience and self-scrutiny.

Mixed-media painting by Ivy Pei inspired by Water-Moon Guanyin
Water-Moon Guanyin

Inspired by a Guanyin sculpture at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, this painting reflects on a figure associated with wisdom and stillness in Chinese tradition. Making it became a meditative practice and a quiet route to inner peace.