Form 8-K

8-K — Beneficient

Accession: 0001493152-26-043234

Filed: 2026-09-18

Period: 2026-09-18

CIK: 0001775734

SIC: 6199 (FINANCE SERVICES)

Item: Regulation FD Disclosure

Item: Financial Statements and Exhibits

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UNITED

STATES

SECURITIES

AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON,

DC 20549

FORM

8-K

CURRENT

REPORT

Pursuant

to Section 13 or 15(d)

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):

☐

Written

communication pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

☐

Soliciting

material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

☐

Pre-commencement

communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

☐

Pre-commencement

communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities

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

Title

of each class

Trading

Symbol(s)

Name

of each exchange on which registered

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).

Emerging

growth company ☒

an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying

with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ☐

Item

7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.

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.

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

EX-99.1

Filename: ex99-1.htm · Sequence: 2

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

(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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