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Download the Annual Review 2020 Navigating a paradigm shift Realising potential LetterOne Annual Review 2020 02 An increasingly changing world 02 At a glance 04 Chairman’s review 08 Chief Executive’s review 12 Market context 14 Our perspectives 18 Helping companies realise potential 20 Our approach 22 A fresh approach to food retail 26 Pandemic throws ESG into sharp relief 28 ESG initiatives across L1 portfolio 30 Is economic measurement vital to build post-COVID? 34 Building world-class businesses 36 L1 Energy 38 L1 Technology 40 L1 Retail 42 L1 Health 44 L1 Treasury 46 Governance 48 Chairman’s governance letter 50 Our standards 52 Board of Directors 54 Financial summary 56 Contact details Our purpose is to invest in sectors that have a strong bias to satisfy society’s needs, including health, food, retail, energy, and technology. www.letterone.com LetterOne Different world, same purpose The pandemic shifted the paradigm. But by staying true to our purpose, we’ve kept on course. By asking the questions that matter, we’ve been inspired to find solutions that make a difference. It’s why we’ve shown strong performance so far, and why we’ll keep navigating towards success. We realise potential LetterOne Annual Review 2020 01 AN INCREASINGLY CHANGING WORLD At a glance We aim to build a portfolio of successful companies A sustainable approach that are leaders in their fields. L1 currently invests We look for companies that will be the new stars in this changing landscape through majority or minority equity holdings in public and aim to build the companies of the and private companies or through structured equity. future. To do this: Our portfolio and capital allocation reflects a balance of sector and company exposure with diversification across cycles, geographies, currencies, and commodities. • We invest for long-term growth • We make large-scale investments in sectors we know well • We engage personally with management teams • We target persistent value creation • We are committed to best governance practice Financial highlights At 31 December 2020 $22.3bn $1.8bn $0.4bn Net assets Capital deployed Cash realisations (2019: $23.4bn) (2019: $2.9bn) (2019: $0.6bn) -4.7% $4.3bn $0.1bn Decrease in net assets value Liquidity Dividends paid (2019: $5.2bn) (2019: $0.2bn) 02 LetterOne Annual Review 2020 Net assets under management As at 31 December 2020 1.8% 13.9% 1. L1 Treasury and other assets 7 22.7% $5.1bn 6 1 2. L1 Technology $2.7bn % 3. L1 Energy 9.0 5 $5.2bn 4. PE Funds $3.8bn 2 5. L1 Retail $2.0bn 12.1% 4 6. PE Funds – Healthcare % $3.1bn 17.2 7. L1 Health 3 $0.4bn 23.3% Return by business unit For the year ended 31 December 2020 Gain/Loss ($bn) Realised Unrealised +0.7 +0.4 +0.3 +0.3 +0.1 0 -1.0 e r y y a g g -1.7 c s s o o y h l l d d r t o o y n n u l i n n g al u u s r a h h e F F a t e c c H e E E n e e re T T T E P R P – LetterOne Annual Review 2020 03 AN INCREASINGLY CHANGING WORLD Chairman’s review “I ended this year with a much stronger faith in human ingenuity than I started with.” Lord Davies of Abersoch Non-Executive Chairman 04 LetterOne Annual Review 2020 LetterOne Annual Review 2020 05 AN INCREASINGLY CHANGING WORLD Chairman’s review food and household items operating in Q&A Spain, Portugal, Brazil and Argentina, continued trading throughout the pandemic. Wintershall Dea, despite low Lord Davies of Abersoch oil prices and the challenges of producing gas during a pandemic, continued to Non-Executive Chairman drive efficiencies. The challenge for big corporates is how to tap into innovation whilst running normal businesses day-to-day. That’s what L1 has been successful at this year. Q: It’s been a turbulent year. What do I’m reassured about the capacity and you think the economic impact of adaptability of humans, but I also Q: Many are saying COVID-19 accelerated COVID-19 will be? see an uncertain economic and paradigm shifts. Do you think it did? A: It is too early to tell, particularly if you social environment. A: The pandemic accelerated some structural shifts that have been happening combine the impact of COVID-19 and Q: How has L1 come out of the year? for some time in e-commerce and remote Brexit, but I ended this year with a much What’s surprised you? stronger faith in human ingenuity than working. The importance of Environmental, A: I think L1 has come out of this stronger. I started with. Social and Governance (ESG) was L1, like every other company, has been reinforced, which I had not expected. If you look back, we’ve seen some tested by the events of the past year. amazing developments in terms of the Was our investment philosophy fit It is clear that the continued depletion pace of innovation, the remarkable for purpose? Were our systems able of our planet’s natural resources has vaccine development, and the resilience to accommodate remote working? health consequences. Diseases like of people who have adapted to a new way COVID-19 and MERS are driven by Yes, L1 responded well to these of living and working. biodiversity crises caused by things challenges. Holland & Barrett and DIA like deforestation. Group, an international distributor of 06 LetterOne Annual Review 2020 nations don’t compile them. I believe As the FT reported recently, the that wealth economics will help countries McKinsey Global Institute has found understand the full suite of assets that companies that took a long-term available to them and how they are approach had 47% stronger cumulative being managed over time. revenue growth with less volatility than other groups. Yet 70% of executives Q: How has L1 responded surveyed by McKinsey in 2020 believed in terms of ESG? that their CEOs would sacrifice A: Many people imagined that ESG long-term growth for short-term would take a back seat in the face of the financial objectives. We have worked pandemic. But 2020 saw an increasing to avoid that mistake. focus on ESG issues, especially climate and social issues. Q: What’s your view on the investment climate going forward? While it remains to be seen how A: I see an uncertain economic and social substantive the UK’s green initiatives environment. Structural shifts that have turn out to be, the fact that the country been happening for a long time have COVID-19 has also made the health is hosting the COP26 conference in accelerated in the last 12 months, which inequalities that exist between the poorest November guarantees that climate could have dramatic implications for the and richest communities worse in the change will remain a high priority. structure and cohesion of our society. UK. During the pandemic, the wealthiest in society have become richer while the most vulnerable have become poorer. “We’ve seen some amazing developments On the positive side, we are more conscious and vocal about these in terms of the pace of innovation, the inequalities. There is a growing sense remarkable vaccine development, and that this is unacceptable and must be addressed. I believe business has a role the resilience of people who have adapted to play in this by creating prosperity for all stakeholders and society as a whole. to a new way of living and working.” Q: How did we miss I am pleased to tell you that in December Many businesses and individuals rely on seeing these inequalities? the Board approved our ESG policy. unprecedented levels of government and A: The pandemic has taught business As a long-term investor, L1 identifies central bank support. High government leaders that the prevailing measures and assesses relevant ESG impacts as deficits and historically low interest rates of economic success are inadequate part of its investment process. In this mean there is less room to support the and counterproductive. way, L1 helps create more successful economy through “traditional” channels. and sustainable businesses over the Take the leading index of economic The long-term impact of this stimulus long term. growth, the Gross Domestic Product or is unclear, as are the speed and GDP. That straightforward measure of As I said last year, capitalism is changing mechanisms of unwinding it. It could be a output by country is useful, but only to and businesses that don’t change will challenge in the coming years to balance a point. It misses the full, interrelated be left behind. Retaining top talent will the moral imperatives of supporting the ecosystem of commercial and social also depend on our adhering to these most vulnerable in society while ensuring activities that comprise the real new realities. macroeconomic stability. productive capacity and welfare of nations. What good is a GDP measure Q: Do you think being a long-term Lord Davies of Abersoch if it misses ill-health, racial inequities, investor is an advantage in times Non-Executive Chairman and climate change impacts? like these? A: In any crisis, short-termism is an For this reason, L1 is sponsoring research engrained response, but L1 has looked at the University of Cambridge’s Bennett through that – at how the crisis informed Institute of Public Policy to develop a its longer-term strategy and what more 360-degree gauge of economic opportunities have arisen as a result wellbeing that measures what we call of the pandemic.
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