Advising on the implementation of the investment activities of this newly created pension plan, University Pension Plan Ontario
Christophe L'Ahelec is an investment professional with twenty years of global experience in France, Hong Kong, Switzerland, and Canada.
Christophe is currently advising the newly created University Pension Plan Ontario on the implementation of its investment activities, with a particular focus on the setup of its External Managers Program.
Prior to that Christophe was a Senior Principal in the Capital Markets (CM) department, at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board where he was accountable for the top-down management of the external managers portfolio and was part of the investment committee allocating to hedge fund, private credit and long only equity managers. In addition to these responsibilities in the External Managers Group, he led the risk reporting efforts across all internal and external portfolio activities and was a member of the Capital Markets Risk Forum that allocated risk and monitored CM risk exposures across CM business lines. During his 11 years tenure at OTPP, he originated, conducted due-diligence, and on-boarded systematic alpha managers in the equity and futures space, along with leading the group's work in the alternative risk premia space.
Before coming to Canada, Christophe was a quantitative analyst and assistant portfolio manager at Mignon Genève SA/Alpstar Asset Management, in Switzerland, where he took part in the creation and portfolio management of a European systematic market neutral fund.
He spent the first two years of his career working for BNP Paribas in Hong Kong where he provided real-time quantitative support to the fixed-income trading desk.
Christophe is a graduate engineer in Finance and Applied Mathematics from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique et de Mathématiques Appliquées de Grenoble, France and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. Christophe has been invited to speak globally on advanced portfolio and risk management topics and has published papers on topics regarding portfolio construction and managed futures.