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Benchmark Financial Services, Inc.
Benchmark Financial Services, Inc. is a member of NASD, the National Association of Securities Dealer. NASD is a self regulatory organization of the securities industry responsible for the operation and regulation of the NASDQ stock market and over the counter markets. It also administrates exams for the investments professionals, such as the series of 7 exams.
The company specializes in investigations of pension fraud, money management abuses and wrong doing involving securities brokerages and pension investment consultants. Their investigations frequently focus upon illegal or unethical business practices that are commonplace in the securities brokerage, asset management and consulting industries, as well as hidden or poorly disclosed financial arrangements between vendors to pensions.
As a result of the groundbreaking investigations they undertake into arcane pension financial matters, they are uniquely capable of identifying problematic business practices and predicting future regulatory developments. Periodically they are invited to share their findings with law enforcement, regulators and self regulatory organizations.
Benchmark focuses upon conducting forensic reviews of the investment management process and financial products within pensions. Since the U.S. is generally at the forefront of asset management and pension matters, their cutting edge investigations of pension fraud and money management wrongdoing in the U.S. can be especially valuable to pensions operating abroad that seek to avoid the mistakes U.S. pensions have made. While their clients are typically larger pensions, smaller pensions, in their experience, are far more likely to be victims of fraud and wrongdoing.
Benchmark has undertaken investigations involving defined benefit, defined contribution pension plans and other qualified plans. Included within these plans have been financial products such as mutual funds, variable annuities, hedge funds and private equity funds.
The Center for Investment Management Investigations at Benchmark serves as a resource for institutional investors and operates a network of firm expert in matters related to investigating fraud and wrongdoing by money managers, including mutual fund advisers, as well as securities brokerages, pension consultants and actuaries. Plan sponsors and others may contact CIMI for assistance in identifying or substantiating abuses; expert firms may contact the Center to offer use of their skills or to share information regarding potential investigations.
The Benchmark Alert is produced monthly and expresses opinions about important issues involving pensions and money managers. The Alert is written primarily for institutional investors.
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