Masood Samim, CFA,PhD,CTM

Masood Samim has more than 7 years of industry experience. He joined CI GAM in 2018, building macro quantitative models and contributing analysis and portfolio construction support to the liquid alternative credit funds and fixed income mutual funds. Masood brings a differentiated and specialized quantitative toolkit with an emphasis on derivatives for return-seeking and hedging purposes. Before joining CI GAM, Masood was a postdoctoral fellow at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto, developing and verifying machine-learning algorithms for cancer pathology, and before that, developed quantitative equity derivative hedging strategies for CIBC. Masood holds the CFA and CTM designations and obtained his Honours BSc (with high distinction) majoring in Physics and Biology and minoring in Mathematics, and a PhD (Physics) from the University of Toronto.