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Shares / Re: The Rand
« on: August 11, 2016, 04:37:48 pm »
I found this interesting article on Biznews written by Brian Kantor from Investec. Puts some of the gains in the rand into perspective.

http://www.biznews.com/sa-investing/2016/08/11/brian-kantor-local-lekker-rand-gains-declining-sa-specific-risks/

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Shares / Re: Offshore broke4s
« on: August 11, 2016, 04:32:29 pm »
Hey Mr_D.

Thus far it's been great. I have a local Investec account and through them was able to open the UK Investec account. The cost is £10 per month. 

On the De Giro side the only costs are trading costs and these are ridiculously low in comparison to what I have seen on other platforms.

I'm new to the game so I might be missing something. But so far... all good.

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Shares / Re: Offshore broke4s
« on: August 05, 2016, 05:50:14 pm »
No products test. Very simple

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Shares / Re: Offshore broke4s
« on: August 03, 2016, 07:06:33 pm »
VWRD is available in pound, it's just not listed that well. If you search using the IE number you will find it. But only the Euro denominated fund falls under their free trading offer.



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Shares / Re: Offshore broke4s
« on: August 03, 2016, 09:47:14 am »
I started looking at interactive brokers after reading your post. Also looked at Saxo but in the end it looked like De Giro was really a whole lot cheaper (free etf trading) and a lot less shlep setting up.

I do have a UK bank account, opened it with Investec.  You need £1000 to open the account but you don't need to maintain that level. Costs £10 per month.



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Shares / Offshore broke4s
« on: July 28, 2016, 06:46:27 pm »
Hi all

New to the site. Been reading a lot and really enjoying it.

With regard to offshore brokers - I just completed my first trade with De Giro.  They are a Dutch online brokerage with ridiculously low prices.  In fact for a whole slew of etf's they don't charge anything. When registering I used the UK  platform and my SARS tax number for the NI number as instructed by the support team.

I now think the cheapest path to offshore investment is via exchange4free as recommended by Partick, into your international bank account (UK?) and then invest with De Giro.

Thoughts?

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