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OMERS PENSION FUND OVERVIEW • Founded in 1962 • One of Canada's largest defined benefit pension plans, with $95 billion in net assets • Offices in major cities across North America, the U.K., Western Europe, Asia and Australia • Originating and managing a diversified portfolio of investments in public markets, private equity, infrastructure and real estate
OMERS HAS A DIVERSIFIED BALANCE SHEET 2017 Asset Mix Geographic Distribution PE/VC Public Canada Equity United Real States Estate Rest of Fixed Infrastructure the Income Europe World
OMERS VENTURES Investment Focus We invest across North America and beginning to target Western Europe. We are a lifecycle investor – patient, high value-add capital Investment Philosophy Interested in technology companies with market disrupting potential, using an entrepreneur-first approach How We Leverage The Other 99% OMERS brand goes a long way in Canada. Helps get in the room with hottest companies but we don’t rest on that. Work closely with Capital Markets, Private Equity, Real Estate and Infrastructure teams to identify and assess opportunities, and then support our companies. Constantly learning how to better utilize the OMERS worldwide portfolio and ecosystem OMERS Ventures has deployed over $500M into what we believe are top technology companies
The Industrial Revolution of the 18th century is credited with transitioning the economy to modern production methods
However, the Industrial Revolution never stopped, it only sped up with accelerating waves of innovation 6th wave 5th wave Waves of Innovation Sustainability Radical resource productivity Innovation 4th wave Whole system design Biomimcry Green chemistry Petro Industrial ecology 3rd wave chemicals Renewable energy Electronics Green nanotechnology Aviation Electricity Space 2nd wave Chemicals Internal combustion Steam power engine Railroad Digital Networks 1st wave Steel Biotechnology Cotton Software Information Iron, Water power technology Mechanization, Textiles Commerce 1785 1845 1900 1950 1990 2020 Sources: The Natural Edge Project 2004
Disruptive Technology is Here to Stay 2018 2016 represented $1.06T $880B $850B $770B $450B the first year where the top 5 public companies by market cap were all in the technology segment Sources: Visual Capitalist
In the past 20 years, vertical technology disruption has caused the downfall of incumbents in several industries Retail News TV/Film Transportation Lodging
• $870 billion USD market cap • 533% increase in market cap in last 4 years • $178 billion USD revenue in 2017; Germany is 2nd biggest market with $17 billion USD in sales • Over 300 million users, 100 million of which are Prime users • 49% share of US retail ecommerce in 2018 • 566,000 employees • More than 100,000 warehouse robots 3,500 U.S. retail store closures in 2017 attributed to Amazon’s total retail growth Sources: Statista, NY Times
• $455 billion USD market cap • $41 billion USD revenue in 2017 • $16 billion USD net income in 2017 • 2.5 billion people use at least one of Facebook’s apps • 300 million photo uploads per day • 60% decline in # of people working in US newspaper industry since 1990 • 30,275 employees $20 billion in ad revenues for Facebook in 2018, double that of all US print newspapers Sources: Statista, Zephoria, TechCrunch
• $154 billion USD market cap • $27.4 billion USD revenue • 130 million Global subscribers • 6,000 titles in the US (30% TV Shows) • $8 billion spent on original content in 2018 • 700 original TV shows and 80 original films in 2018 • 112 Emmy nominations in 2017 • 5,500 employees 10% decrease in U.S. cable subscriptions since 2012 vs. more than 100% increase in subscription for Netflix Sources: Statista, Comparitech
• $62 billion USD current valuation • $21 billion USD raised to date • >600 cities, 78 countries • 75 million riders (48 million projected adults expected to use Uber in 2018) • 3 million drivers • 10 billion rides taken to date (15 million average daily trips) • $20 billion USD gross bookings in 2016 • 19,000 employees Taxis and rental cars took up 90% of the US business traveler market in 2014, today it’s 27% Sources: Statista
• $31 billion USD current valuation • 150 million users • 640,000 hosts • 4 million listings • 65k active cities, 190 countries • 24 million projected users in Europe by 2020 • $1.7 billion revenue in 2016 • 3100 employees Airbnb now has 4 million listings, more than the top five hotel brands combined Sources: Statista, Bizjournals
The next wave of disruption is horizontal in nature, and bound to impact numerous industries simultaneously "By 2100, our destiny is to become like the gods we once worshipped and feared. But our tools will not be magic wands and potions, but the science of computers, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, biotechnology and quantum theory.“ - Dr. Michio Kaku, Theoretical Quantum Physicist Advances in artificial Blockchain and Future of Quantum Computing Synthetic Biology and intelligence and robotics distributed ledger Transportation will will revolutionize data artificial intelligence will will change a range of technology will change change mobility, analysis and allow for help prolong life and industries such as any business model that logistics and exponential gains in create artificially manufacturing, energy, involves intermediaries infrastructure. computing power. developed organisms. healthcare, etc. today
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ROBOTICS Overview Wave 1: Wave 2: Wave 3: Wave 4: ?? Pure Research ML Infrastructure Applied AI Never commercialized / Limited commercial Industry/category specific ?? pre-revenue acquihires traction but acquired end-user applications Description before reaching scale Examples ?? 18 OMERS PowerPoint Template
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ROBOTICS The evolution of Atlas
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ROBOTICS The evolution of Atlas
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ROBOTICS The evolution of Atlas
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE & ROBOTICS Real life examples Siemens has been using neural networks to monitor its AI can increase the relevance of Using AI, Amazon has created a store with no steel plants. It also opened an AI lab in Munich recently recommendations for client resulting into lines and no checkouts. evaluating the feasibility of new ideas. a higher chance of securing a sale. In March 2017, Domino’s Pizza announced a pilot program in Robo-advisors are moving towards group plans in an Europe using autonomous robots to deliver pizza. effort to disrupt the employer-operated pension industry.
BLOCKCHAIN Overview • Blockchain is an open, distributed ledger that can ICO Mania record transactions between two parties efficiently and $8B 140 in a verifiable and permanent way $7B 120 • First big use case is bitcoin which was launched in a $6B 100 white paper, however several blockchain-related $5B 80 startups have launched since 2013; many with $4B 60 applications outside cryptocurrency $3B 40 • Blockchain is disruptive for a number of reasons: $2B ▪ Transparency $1B 20 ▪ Efficiency $0B 0 Dec-17 Mar-17 Apr-17 May-17 Aug-17 Mar-18 Apr-18 May-18 Aug-18 Jan-17 Jun-17 Oct-17 Nov-17 Jan-18 Jun-18 Feb-17 Jul-17 Sep-17 Feb-18 Jul-18 ▪ Security Total Amount Raised ($M) Number of ICOs Sources: Coinschedule
BLOCKCHAIN Real life examples • An emerging group of startups are re-imagining existing Internet infrastructure using blockchain technologies • Leveraging the distributed power of the network, these organizations are developing products and services intended to unbundle or eliminate many of the centralized applications that consumers and businesses use
TRANSPORTATION Overview The Mobility industry is undergoing a wave of massive change driven by four main factors. Autonomous Connected Electric Shared ✓ Increased safety, changing travel habits and more efficient logistics will impact many industries ✓ Proprietary data assets which can assist in autonomous navigation will see rapid increase in value. ✓ Gradual shift to electric fleet will drive demand for charging infrastructure.
TRANSPORTATION Real life examples McKinsey estimates that self-driving vehicles could Fewer younger people getting a drivers license - % of 20-24 yr Suncor is testing driverless trucks at its main oil eliminate need for 5.7 billion square meters of parking olds fell from 92% in 1983 to 77% in 2014, a trend likely to sands mine in Fort McMurray space in the US alone continue with the rise of Mobility-as-a-Service German government taking steps to ban sale of NYC connects ~$2B in traffic violations per year - Self-driving cars will internal combustion engine vehicles by 2030 result in fewer traffic violations, reducing police services revenue
QUANTUM COMPUTING Overview ✓ A Quantum system replaces classical bits with quantum qubits ✓ Qubits follow the superposition principle and can exist as “0” and “1” at the same time ✓ Using qubits instead of bits, with a single input one could process all the possible combinations of “0” and “1”’s in a string at the same time ✓ Certain types of problems could be solved much faster than any classical computer
QUANTUM COMPUTING Applications Quantum computers empowering machine learning by enabling AI Complex financial modeling and risk management within Calculate traffic flows, identify most efficient programs to search through gigantic datasets, impacting every the financial industry (Monte Carlo Simulation) routes, and optimize routing for retail industry deliveries Create, simulate and model molecular structures e.g. D- Ensuring a set of satellites observe a large fraction of a Wave solved the puzzle of how some proteins fold in 2012 coverage area as satellites change position
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY Overview 2002 2013 2017
SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY Real life examples Scientists successfully replicated the entire Scientists created Syn3.0, a man-made synthetic Harvard used a gene-editing tool (CRISPR) to edit human genome as 23,040 different fragments bacteria. It is smaller than any other found in pig DNA, creating organs for human transplant. of cloned DNA. nature. Genetics to develop ideal DNA genome sequencing to customize efficacy in pharmaceuticals. healthcare.
What are the impacts of these disruptions
There are many… • Privacy concerns? • Democratization of knowledge? • Rising unemployment? • Workforce flexibility? • Increased inequality? • Global interconnectedness? • Geopolitical unrest? • New market opportunities? • Continued rise of nationalism? • Sustainable/self-sufficient growth? • Longer life expectancy? • Increased transparency and safety?
Increased Life Expectancy Life Expectancy at Birth (Average for Both Genders) The Price of Old Age 90 1200 In terms of costs, longevity risk in some developed 80 Economies far outstrips natural catastrophes. 1000 70 60 800 LEGEND 50 U.S. 600 U.K. 40 Netherlands 30 400 Canada Switzerland 20 200 Germany 10 0 0 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2110 2020 2030 2040 2050 2060 2070 2080 2090 2100 Longevity Natural Catastrophe Source: Risk Management Solutions Sources: Statista, Zephoria
Rising Unemployment Sources: Federal Reserve Bank, World Economic Forum
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The OMERS Investment division it attempting to prepare for upcoming disruption by first becoming experts ourselves EXAMPLES Latest trends in Potential disruptors to Innovation investing Insights and Impact of Blockchain cloud computing portfolio companies through PropTech fund knowledge sharing CAPITAL INFRA- PRIVATE STRATEGIC MARKETS STRUCTURE EQUITY PARTNERS
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