Robert Scott Ferguson

Mr. Robert S.
Ferguson, CFA MBA, is a Chief Investment Officer at Benchmark Plus Management LLC.
He brings over 30 years of investment management and financial futures trading to his current role.
He co-founded the firm in 2003.
Prior to co-founding Benchmark Plus, Mr. Ferguson co-founded Ferguson Bakken Strategies, Inc. in 1993, an investment advisor to high net worth clients specializing in closed end fund arbitrage.
Prior to that, he served as Director, Pension Fund Investments for the Weyerhaeuser Company, where he shared responsibility for managing the investments of the firm’s pension fund, with AUM of approximately $1 billion.
He was a key contributor to the creation and implementation of the pension funds investment architecture, manager selection as well as being responsible for performance measurement.
In addition, he was responsible for management of the pension fund’s derivative portfolio.
Prior to that, he spent 3 ½ years as a systems analyst for Weyerhaeuser.
He earned a BS of Science from Oregon State University and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst Designation.