Identify your principal owner(s).
Founded in 2003, Benchmark Plus Management, LLC (“Benchmark” or the “Adviser”)
is a Delaware limited liability company registered as an investment adviser with the
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
Robert S. Ferguson, Scott Franzblau, Stephen Westphal and Steven Carroll are the
principal owners of Benchmark. Robert S. Ferguson, Stephen Westphal and Steven
Carroll are the Managing Members. Scott Franzblau retired from Benchmark on
December 31, 2020.
Benchmark provides discretionary investment advisory and management services to a
number of private investment funds or pools. The investment objective of each
Advisory Client (as defined and identified below) is achieved principally through the
allocation of Advisory Client assets to independent investment managers or
investments in pooled investment vehicles managed by independent investment
managers (commonly referred to as a “fund of hedge funds” or “fund of managed
accounts” structure).
Benchmark serves as either the general partner, the managing member or the investment
manager to the following private investment funds (each a “Fund” and collectively
referred to here as the “Funds”) via the following master-feeder structures:
• Benchmark Plus Overseas Partners Fund, Ltd. (“BPOPF”), a British Virgin
Islands international business company that invests substantially all of its
assets in Benchmark Plus Partners, L.L.C. (“BPP”), a Delaware limited
liability company;
• Benchmark Plus Overseas Institutional Partners, Ltd. (“BPOIP”), a British
Virgin Islands international business company that invests substantially all of
its assets in Benchmark Plus Institutional Partners, L.L.C. (“BPIP”), a
Delaware limited liability company; and
The Funds are collectively referred to herein as the “Advisory Clients.”
specializing in a particular type of advisory service, such as financial planning,
quantitative analysis, or market timing, explain the nature of that service in
greater detail. If you provide investment advice only with respect to limited types
of investments, explain the type of investment advice you offer, and disclose that
your advice is limited to those types of investments.
Benchmark provides investment advisory services to pooled investment vehicles that
are commonly referred to as “funds of hedge funds” or “funds of managed accounts.”
As such, Benchmark’s Funds primarily invest in a select number of underlying funds
(each a “Sub-Fund”) or managed accounts (each a “Sub-Account”) managed by
unaffiliated investment managers (“Sub-Managers”) that invest or trade in securities
and other financial instruments and that are typically diversified across a number of
investment strategies. Benchmark performs (what it believes is) extensive fundamental
and quantitative analysis of the investment strategies of Sub-Managers with whom it
places the Funds’ assets. The analysis addresses the following issues, among others:
• Persuasiveness of Strategy;
• Competitive Advantage;
• People;
• Portfolio Construction and Risk Management;
• Performance Evaluation and Analysis; and
• Underlying Fund Details.
The Funds are structured to provide investors (each an “Investor”) with a choice of
investment “sleeves” (the “Sleeves”), each of which has a different investment
objective (and/or benchmark), to provide Investors greater flexibility to meet their
specific
investment objectives.
Each Fund is governed by a limited partnership agreement, limited liability company
operating agreement, or similar document (the “Governing Documents”) that sets forth
the specific investment guidelines and restrictions applicable to each Fund and each
Sleeve. In addition, each Fund’s (and Sleeve’s) investment objective and strategy is set
forth in a confidential private offering memorandum (each a “CPOM”) provided to
each Investor in the relevant Fund. Each CPOM contains important information
regarding the intended investment program of each Fund and should be carefully
reviewed prior to investing.
While it is anticipated that the Funds will invest primarily in certain other underlying
private funds and accounts managed by unaffiliated Sub-Managers (as described
above), Benchmark has broad and flexible investment authority. Accordingly, the
Funds’ assets and the assets of the Sub-Managers may at any time include long or short
positions in U.S. or foreign publicly traded or privately issued common stocks,
preferred stocks, stock warrants and rights, corporate or sovereign debt, bonds, notes
or other debentures or debt participations, mortgage- backed and asset-backed
securities, partnership interests, interests in investment companies, convertible
securities, swaps, options, commodities, foreign currencies, futures contracts, cash
equivalent investments and other financial instruments or any and all types which exists
now or are hereafter created.
individual needs of clients. Explain whether clients may impose restrictions on
investing in certain securities or types of securities.
Benchmark does not tailor its advisory services to the individual needs of Investors and
Investors may not impose restrictions on investing in certain securities or types of
securities. Each Fund’s CPOM sets forth such Fund’s investment strategy, including
guidelines regarding the types of securities the Fund will invest in and portfolio
limits.
Benchmark may from time to time enter into letter agreements or other similar
agreements (collectively, “Side Letters”) with one or more Investors that provide such
Investors with additional and/or different rights or terms than those set forth in the
Funds’ offering documents. Such rights may include, without limitation, greater
portfolio transparency, fee waivers or reductions, interests/shares having different
voting rights, restrictions or notification rights, additional rights to reports, portfolio
limits and other information and other more favorable investment terms, including
withdrawal/redemption rights, than the terms associated with investments by other
Investors.
services, (1) describe the differences, if any, between how you manage wrap fee
accounts and how you manage other accounts, and (2) explain that you receive
a portion of the wrap fee for your services.
Benchmark does not participate in wrap fee programs.
discretionary basis and the amount of client assets you manage on a non-
discretionary basis. Disclose the date “as of” which you calculated the amounts.
As of December 31, 2023, Benchmark manages $1,026,456,829 of Advisory Client
regulatory assets under management on a discretionary basis. Benchmark does not
currently manage any Advisory Client assets on a non-discretionary basis.