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What is Benchmark and How Can Investors Use Benchmark Effectively?
Anything that acts as a standard against which all other things are compared is called a benchmark.
The financial system consists of two different markets, the primary market and the secondary market. Both of these provide different services to investors. While in the primary market, financial securities such as shares and bonds are issued for the first time, the secondary market is a place to trade and resell these securities.