Hound Partners, LLC

Hound Partners, LLC is a hedge fund sponsor based out of New York City. The company was established in 2004 by Jonathan A.G. Auerbach, who is still with the company acting as its Portfolio Manager. Jonathan A.G. Auerbach previously worked at Ziff Brothers Investments as a senior analyst before founding the company. Hound Partners has grown from its inception to now have 22 employees of which 14 are investment professionals. The company conducts its research internally and utilizes a fundamental methodology to make its investment decisions. Hound Partners invests in the value stocks of companies, utilizing a long short strategy to allocate its assets in the public equity markets on a global scale. The company invests most heavily in the industrials sector, which alone makes up almost a quarter of its total asset allocations, and also invests in the finance sector, which makes up another fifth of its total allocations, health care, consumer discretionary, information technology, and energy sectors, among other sectors to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing allocation. The company’s top holdings include Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., Spirit Aerosystems Holdings Inc., Citigroup Inc., Caters Inc., Tesoro Petroleum Co., and FleetCor Technologies Inc. Its top 10 holdings alone make up over three quarters of its total holdings and the company has a turnover rate of 30%. Hound Partners holds over $4.5 billion in total assets under management spread across 10 accounts, all of which are discretionary accounts. Both of the firm’s total number of accounts held and total assets under management have been increasing in recent years with its total assets under management growing significantly from approximately half a billion to almost 9 times that amount today. Hound Partners currently caters exclusively to pooled investment vehicles and takes advisory fees in the form of a percentage of assets and various performance based fees.