Beneficient (NASDAQ: BENFW)

Beneficient is a technology-enabled financial services company that provides liquidity solutions and related trustee custody and trust administrative services to participants in the alternative asset industry.

The company generates revenue through interest and fee income from ExAlt Loans made to Customer ExAlt Trusts and through fees for trustee custody data administration transfer agent and broker-dealer services provided to Customers and trustees of the Customer ExAlt Trusts.

The company operates through the following segments: Ben Liquidity Ben Custody and Ben Markets.

• Ben Liquidity provides liquidity and primary capital financing through ExAlt Plan transactions using a proprietary trust structure and makes loans to Customer ExAlt Trusts which in turn use loan proceeds to acquire and deliver consideration to Customers in exchange for their alternative assets or to fulfill primary capital needs.

• Ben Custody provides an extensive line of trustee and custody services alternative asset trust administration and data management services to the trustees of the Customer ExAlt Trusts and other Customers for fees payable quarterly.

• Ben Markets provides broker-dealer services through its subsidiary AltAccess Securities a FINRA member and SEC registered broker-dealer and transfer agent services through its subsidiary Beneficient Transfer an SEC registered transfer agent each in connection with offering the company's liquidity products.

Beneficient operates in the alternative asset investment market where it differentiates itself through its technology-enabled platform AltAccess and its proprietary ExAlt Plan loan structure which enables simple rapid and cost-effective liquidity and primary capital solutions in as little as 15 days for most sub-classes of alternative assets.

The company serves mid-to-high net worth individual investors small-to-midsize institutional investors family offices and general partners and sponsors and the alternative asset funds they manage.