-Facilitates buying of shares
-Facilitates selling of shares
-Safeguarding investors interests – This is achieved by requiring the company that wants to be quoted to attain standards of performance
-Provides useful information - provides timely, accurate and reliable information to investors which enable them to make decisions on investment choices
-Assists company to raise capital
-Creation of employment – brokers and their agents
-Raising revenue for the government e.g. taxes, licence fees, rent and rates
-Availing variety of securities
-Fixing of prices
-Measures a county’s economic progress
-Promote the culture of saving
Kavungya answered the question on September 26, 2019 at 05:29
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