Long Pond Capital, LP

Long Pond Capital, LP is a hedge fund sponsor based out of New York City, New York. The firm was originally established by founder John Khoury, who is still with the company today acting as its Managing Partner. The company conducts its research internally and externally, focusing on identifying asymmetry, which the company has defined as the “material disconnect between stock price and intrinsic value, at the company level across a broad investable universe of real estate and real-estate-related securities.” Long Pond Capital utilizes a fundamental methodology, focusing on the value stocks of companies with a bottom up approach. The company invests most heavily in the real estate sector, which alone makes up over three quarters of the firm’s total asset allocations, and also invest in the consumer discretionary and finance sectors, among other sectors such as industrials and utilities and telecommunications to a lesser degree, in order of decreasing allocation. Long Pond Capital holds its allocations for 3.2 quarters on average and holds its top 10 allocations for 2.6 quarters on average. The firm’s top allocations include Colony Financial Inc., Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., LaSalle Hotel Properties, Inc., Caterpillar Inc., and Forest City Enterprises, Inc. Class A, in order of decreasing holdings. Long Pond Capital manages over $3.2 billion in total assets under management spread across 4 accounts, all of which are discretionary accounts. Although the firm’s total number of accounts has stayed the same in recent years, its total assets under management has been increasing, growing significantly from under $300 million back in 2012 to well over 10 times that amount today. Long Pond Capital currently caters exclusively to pooled investment vehicles. The firm takes advisory fees in the form of a percentage of assets and various performance based fees and operates with 17 total employees of which 7 are investment professionals.