David Ross

David Ross, Senior Managing Director of the Total Portfolio Management (TPM) group at OPTrust, is responsible for overseeing OPTrust’s public market investment strategies, executed both internally and externally. TPM’s total portfolio approach includes the deployment of strategies in equities, credit, rates, commodities, FX, hedge funds and internally managed systematic strategies. David’s responsibilities also include oversight of the Plan’s internal trading, funding and liquidity management, public markets data science analytics and incubation investments in novel and transformative technologies.

Before joining OPTrust in October 2016, David spent 10 years at the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in Toronto. He served 8 of those years as a Portfolio Manager, pursuing discretionary Global Macro value-added strategies on the Global Opportunities desk before serving as co-head of the Emerging Markets Fixed Income & FX desk within the FICC group. Prior to OTPP, David focused on developing Emerging Markets investment strategies in roles based in London, New York and Toronto.  David has a B.A., Economics from the University of Western Ontario and an M.A., Economics from the University of Toronto. David has been a CFA charterholder since 2006.  

With net assets of $25 billion, OPTrust invests and manages one of Canada’s largest defined benefit plans with over 111,000 members and retirees.