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Interview: Edward (Ted) Siedle, Founder of Benchmark Financial Services, Inc.

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May 09, 2009 01:10 PM PDT

Aired 05/02/09 Benchmark Financial Services, Inc., specializes in investigations of pension fraud, money management abuses and wrongdoing involving securities brokerages and pension investment consultants. Benchmark Financial 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. Based in Ocean Ridge, Florida, Benchmark was founded in 1999 by Edward Siedle. Mr. Siedle is a federal securities attorney, investment banker, brokerage entrepreneur and writer, who has been referred to by the Press as the, "Sam Spade of money management" and "the nation's most vocal critic of abuses in the money management industry." Groundbreaking investigations undertaken by Siedle have included mutual fund portfolio manager illegal personal trading schemes, unethical pension consultant kick-back arrangements, illegal “soft dollar” programs, as well as hedge fund and venture capital fraud. http://www.benchmarkalert.com/home.html

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Ron DeLegge is the weekly voice of the Index Investing Radio Show. He's been quoted and contributed to financial news articles published by the Associated Press, Business Week, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal. In addition, Ron serves as the Publisher and Editor of ETFguide.com, a popular destination for information on exchange traded funds or ETFs. He is also a contributing writer to a monthly column on ETFs for Research Magazine (ResearchXtra.com), an industry trade journal for financial advisors. He believes the formula for beating Wall Street starts with trusting the indexes, not the money managers that try to beat them and fail.

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