Beneficient plans Q4 2026 launch of AltLens platform

Q: What did Beneficient (BENF) announce in this 8-K?

Beneficient announced its planned launch of AltLens, an alternative asset portfolio analytics and risk platform for family offices and small institutional investors. The company expects AltLens to help users analyze exposures, allocations, portfolio risk, concentration, and stress-test results using historical private-market data.

Q: When does Beneficient (BENF) expect to launch AltLens?

Beneficient expects to launch AltLens in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2026. The company also states that it expects to make AltLens available to family offices and small institutional investors during that same fourth quarter 2026 timeframe.

Q: Who is the target market for Beneficient’s AltLens platform?

AltLens is developed for family offices and small institutional investors. The platform is intended to make institutional-level analytics for alternative assets accessible to these investors, supporting portfolio oversight, risk analysis, and investment committee or board decision-making.

Q: How will AltLens handle stress testing for alternative asset portfolios?

AltLens will offer historical and hypothetical stress-testing. Historical scenarios will simulate performance in periods like the 2008-09 financial crisis, the 2000-03 technology downturn, and the 2021-22 inflationary environment, while users can also model custom equity-market declines and interest-rate shocks.

Q: What market growth context does Beneficient cite for AltLens?

Beneficient notes that Preqin has forecast that alternative assets under management will reach approximately $29 trillion globally by 2029. The company states that as alternative assets grow as a share of portfolios, family offices and smaller institutions face a growing need for consistent analysis tools like AltLens.

Beneficient (BENF) reported that it plans to launch AltLens, an alternative asset portfolio analytics and risk platform for family offices and small institutional investors, in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2026.

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Beneficient (BENF) reported that it plans to launch AltLens, an alternative asset portfolio analytics and risk platform for family offices and small institutional investors, in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2026. AltLens is designed to organize and analyze alternative asset portfolios, measuring exposures, allocations versus targets and limits, portfolio risk, concentration, and stress-test results using historical private-market data.

The platform maps positions by asset class, strategy, geography, and sector, and from quarterly historical private-market returns is designed to calculate volatility, beta, value-at-risk, correlation, and concentration metrics. AltLens will also offer historical and hypothetical stress-testing scenarios and deliver results through dashboards and exportable reports, complementing customers’ existing accounting and administration systems.

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Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure Disclosure

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AltLens launch timing: Fourth quarter of calendar year 2026 Forecast alternative assets under management: $29 trillion globally Historical performance frequency: Quarterly returns series +1 more

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AltLens launch timing Fourth quarter of calendar year 2026 Planned launch and availability of AltLens for family offices and small institutional investors

Forecast alternative assets under management $29 trillion globally Preqin forecast for alternatives AUM by 2029 cited as market context

Historical performance frequency Quarterly returns series AltLens maintains a historical series of quarterly returns for private-market risk segments

Key risk metrics Volatility, beta, value-at-risk, correlation, concentration Metrics AltLens is designed to calculate from historical private-market returns

Key Terms

alternative asset, value-at-risk, stress-testing, Technology-Enabled Fiduciary Financial Institution (TEFFI) Act, +1 more

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alternative asset financial

"an alternative asset portfolio analytics and risk platform developed for family offices"

Assets outside traditional stocks, bonds and cash—such as real estate, private company shares, hedge funds, commodities, art, or infrastructure—that investors use to broaden a portfolio. They matter because they often behave differently from public markets, so adding them is like mixing different ingredients into a recipe: they can reduce overall ups-and-downs or boost returns, but may also come with higher fees, less transparency and harder-to-sell stakes that investors must weigh.

value-at-risk financial

"AltLens is designed to calculate volatility, beta, value-at-risk, correlation, and concentration"

Value-at-risk (VaR) estimates the largest loss an investment or portfolio is likely to suffer over a specific time frame at a given probability level — for example, the amount you would expect to lose or exceed only 5% of the time. Think of it like a weather forecast for losses: it gives a commonly agreed threshold for how bad things might get. Investors use VaR to set risk limits, compare portfolios, and decide how much capital to hold against potential losses.

stress-testing financial

"AltLens will also provide historical and hypothetical stress-testing capabilities"

Stress-testing is the practice of evaluating how a company, financial system, portfolio, or product would perform under extreme but plausible adverse conditions—such as sharp revenue declines, market crashes, or disrupted supply chains. For investors, it exposes hidden weaknesses and measures resilience, much like shaking a model building to see if it holds together, helping assess potential losses, capital needs, and the reliability of future cash flows.

Technology-Enabled Fiduciary Financial Institution (TEFFI) Act regulatory

"received its charter under the State of Kansas’ Technology-Enabled Fiduciary Financial Institution (TEFFI) Act"

private markets financial

"based on the historical behavior of private markets and make advanced, institutional-level analytics"

Private markets are places where investors buy and sell ownership in companies, debt, or assets that are not listed on public stock exchanges — think direct stakes in a start-up, private company, real estate project, or loan. They matter to investors because these deals can offer higher potential returns and diversification but come with less transparency, limited ability to sell quickly, and more uncertainty, like owning a whole house versus trading shares of a real estate fund.

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What did Beneficient (BENF) announce in this 8-K?

Beneficient announced its planned launch of AltLens, an alternative asset portfolio analytics and risk platform for family offices and small institutional investors. The company expects AltLens to help users analyze exposures, allocations, portfolio risk, concentration, and stress-test results using historical private-market data.

When does Beneficient (BENF) expect to launch AltLens?

Beneficient expects to launch AltLens in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2026. The company also states that it expects to make AltLens available to family offices and small institutional investors during that same fourth quarter 2026 timeframe.

Who is the target market for Beneficient’s AltLens platform?

AltLens is developed for family offices and small institutional investors. The platform is intended to make institutional-level analytics for alternative assets accessible to these investors, supporting portfolio oversight, risk analysis, and investment committee or board decision-making.

What analytics will AltLens from BENF provide for alternative asset portfolios?

AltLens is designed to calculate volatility, beta, value-at-risk, correlation, and concentration metrics using historical private-market performance. It maps positions by asset class, strategy, geography, and sector and provides dashboards and exportable reports based on a quarterly portfolio snapshot.

How will AltLens handle stress testing for alternative asset portfolios?

AltLens will offer historical and hypothetical stress-testing. Historical scenarios will simulate performance in periods like the 2008-09 financial crisis, the 2000-03 technology downturn, and the 2021-22 inflationary environment, while users can also model custom equity-market declines and interest-rate shocks.

What broader technology platform is Beneficient (BENF) developing around AltLens?

AltLens is part of Beneficient’s broader alternative asset technology platform, which also includes AltSignal, an AI-enabled alternative asset diligence engine, and AltDeal, an enterprise acquisition analysis engine. The company describes these as components of its alternative asset technology offering.

What market growth context does Beneficient cite for AltLens?

Beneficient notes that Preqin has forecast that alternative assets under management will reach approximately $29 trillion globally by 2029. The company states that as alternative assets grow as a share of portfolios, family offices and smaller institutions face a growing need for consistent analysis tools like AltLens.

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Available on EDGAR 09/18/2026 - 07:45 AM Accepted by SEC EDGAR 09/18/2026 - 07:45 AM

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)

of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): September 18, 2026

Beneficient

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

Nevada		001-41715		72-1573705
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

325 North St. Paul Street, Suite 4850

Dallas, Texas 75201

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, and Zip Code)

(214) 445-4700

Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code

N/A

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share	BENF	Nasdaq Stock Market LLC
Warrants, each whole warrant exercisable for one share of Class A common stock, par value $0.001 per share, and one share of Series A convertible preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share	BENFW	Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR §230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR §240.12b-2 of this chapter).

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Item 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

On September 18, 2026, Beneficient (the “Company”) issued a press release announcing the Company’s anticipated launch of AltLens, the Company’s alternative asset portfolio analytics and risk platform for family offices and small institutional investors.

A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated by reference herein.

The information in this Item 7.01 (including Exhibit 99.1) is being furnished pursuant to Item 7.01 and shall not be deemed to be “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to liabilities of that section, nor shall it be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, except as expressly set forth in such filing.

Item 9.01 Exhibits and Financial Statements.

(d) Exhibits.

Exhibit No.		Description of Exhibit
99.1		Press Release of Beneficient.
104		Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document).

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	BENEFICIENT

	By:	/s/ David B. Rost
	Name:	David B. Rost
	Title:	General Counsel

	Dated: September 18, 2026

Exhibit 99.1

Beneficient Announces Upcoming Launch of AltLens, an Alternative Asset Portfolio Analytics and Risk Platform for Family Offices and Small Institutional Investors

AltLens is engineered to measure portfolio risk based on the historical behavior of private markets and make advanced, institutional-level analytics accessible to family offices and small institutional investors

DALLAS, Sept. 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Beneficient (NASDAQ: BENF) (together with its subsidiaries, the “Company” or “Beneficient”), a technology-enabled platform providing exit opportunities and primary capital solutions and related trust and custody services to holders of alternative assets, today announced that it plans to launch AltLens in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2026. AltLens is an alternative asset portfolio analytics and risk platform developed for family offices and small institutional investors. AltLens is designed to help investment teams maintain, organize, and analyze their alternative asset portfolios and assess exposures, allocations against targets and limits, portfolio risk, concentration, and stress-test results.

“Private markets have become too large and too important to the investors we serve for family offices and smaller institutions to rely principally on spreadsheets and public-market proxies to understand portfolio risk,” said James G. Silk, Chief Executive Officer. “We developed AltLens to make sophisticated alternative asset analysis practical for these investors and managers by applying sophisticated risk models to complex private-market data and translating the results into clear analytics that can inform portfolio decisions.”

AltLens maps each portfolio position to specific private-market risk segments defined by asset class, strategy, geography, and sector. For each segment, AltLens maintains a historical series of quarterly returns based on historical private market performance. From these historical returns, AltLens is designed to calculate volatility, beta, value-at-risk, correlation, and concentration metrics. By incorporating historical private-fund performance, the methodology is designed to reflect how private assets have actually behaved rather than analyzing them through a proxy of select publicly traded securities.

The need for alternative asset analytics is expected to grow with the market. Preqin has forecast that alternatives assets under management will reach approximately $29 trillion globally by 2029. As alternative assets account for a larger share of portfolios, family offices and smaller institutions face a growing need for consistent, defensible analysis to support portfolio oversight and investment decisions.

AltLens will also provide historical and hypothetical stress-testing capabilities. Historical scenarios will simulate how a private-market portfolio would perform during markets analogous to the 2008-09 financial crisis, the 2000-03 technology downturn, and the 2021-22 inflationary and rising-interest-rate environment. Users will also be able to model custom hypothetical equity-market declines and interest-rate shocks and evaluate their projected effects by asset class and individual position.

The platform is organized into a set of analytical “lenses” designed to address key portfolio oversight questions: What does the portfolio hold, and how do its allocations compare with applicable targets and limits? What are its principal sources of risk, and where is it concentrated? How might it perform under select stress scenarios? AltLens will deliver the results through dashboards and exportable reports. Using a quarterly portfolio snapshot, the platform is designed to complement a customer’s existing accounting and administration systems.

“Family offices and smaller institutions should not need an enterprise-scale system or a lengthy implementation to conduct sophisticated portfolio risk analysis for alternative assets,” Silk said. “AltLens is designed to fit their quarterly workflow by translating a portfolio snapshot into clear risk and concentration analysis and reports that support investment committee and board decision-making.”

AltLens is part of Beneficient’s broader alternative asset technology platform, under which Beneficient is developing AltSignal, an AI-enabled alternative asset diligence engine, and AltDeal, an enterprise acquisition analysis engine. Beneficient expects to make AltLens available to family offices and small institutional investors in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2026.

About Beneficient

Beneficient (Nasdaq: BENF) – Ben, for short – is on a mission to democratize the global alternative asset investment market by providing traditionally underserved investors − mid-to-high net worth individuals, small-to-midsized institutions and General Partners seeking exit options, anchor commitments and value-added services for their funds – with solutions that could help them unlock the value in their alternative assets.

Its subsidiary, Beneficient Fiduciary Financial, L.L.C., received its charter under the State of Kansas’ Technology-Enabled Fiduciary Financial Institution (TEFFI) Act and is subject to regulatory oversight by the Office of the State Bank Commissioner.

For more information, visit trustben.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

Contacts

Matt Kreps: 214-597-8200, mkreps@darrowir.com

Michael Wetherington: 214-284-1199, mwetherington@darrowir.com

Investor Relations: investors@beneficient.com

Forward Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the planned launch of AltLens in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2026; the expected timing of AltLens’s availability to family offices and small institutional investors; the designed capabilities of AltLens; the anticipated benefits of AltLens and Beneficient’s broader alternative asset technology platform; the expected growth of the alternative asset market and related demand for portfolio analytics and risk-management tools; and the development and anticipated capabilities of AltSignal and AltDeal. The words “anticipate,” “believe,” “continue,” “could,” “estimate,” “expect,” “intends,” “may,” “might,” “plan,” “possible,” “potential,” “predict,” “project,” “should,” “would” and similar expressions may identify forward-looking statements, but the absence of these words does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. Forward-looking statements are based on our management’s beliefs, as well as assumptions made by, and information currently available to, them. Because such statements are based on expectations as to future financial and operating results and are not statements of fact, actual results may differ materially from those projected.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements include, among others, risks relating to the timing, development, launch and functionality of AltLens; the risk that the Company is unable to develop, commercialize, or expand AltLens, AltSignal, AltDeal, or its broader alternative asset technology platform; and the other risks, uncertainties, and factors set forth under “Risk Factors” in the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and its subsequently filed Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and the risks and uncertainties contained in the Company’s Current Reports on Form 8-K.

Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Readers are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements, and, except as required by law, the Company assumes no obligation and does not intend to update or revise these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.

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