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What's the point of a benchmark?
Some years your portfolio may perform better than the benchmark, and some years it may be the other way around.  Without a benchmark you will never know. And by the way if you choose poorly, you will never beat the benchmark. If the benchmark goes up 20% but your fund/investment only went up 3% you did make money, but you might want to reevaluate your strategy.