1. A system for providing information on risks and related hedging strategies to a plurality customers, said system comprising: a server for receiving communications from said plurality of customers each having client terminals, said server configured to allow said plurality of customers' client terminals to access said system for providing and accessing information corresponding to risks and related hedging strategies; a data aggregation module coupled to said server configured to store both financial information and said information corresponding to risks and related hedging strategies provided by a plurality of data sources, said plurality of data sources including private customer data sources and public data sources, wherein said private customer data sources includes aggregated financial and transaction data from said plurality of customers and wherein said information corresponding to risks and related hedging strategies from said private customer data sources is associated with one or more industries to which said transaction data is applicable; an analytical module coupled to said data aggregation module, said analytical module configured to perform benchmarking estimates for said plurality of customers using said financial information and said information corresponding to risks and related hedging strategies from both said private customer data sources and public data sources retrieved from said data aggregation module, wherein said benchmarking estimates for said plurality of customers are based on said financial information and said information corresponding to risks and related hedging strategies from said public data sources as well as said aggregated financial and transaction data supplied from said plurality of customers to said system, and wherein said benchmarking estimates are performed for each customer of said plurality of customers using combined data from said private customer data sources and said public data sources from a plurality of industries, where each benchmarking estimate for said each customer, among said plurality of customers, is assigned a weighted assessment against a plurality of industries such that said benchmark estimates provided to said each customer are customizably weighted by percentage for comparison against public and private customer data with corresponding industry weighting, said system configured to generate a benchmarking estimate report for each of said plurality of customers, including said weighted assessment against said plurality of industries.