Quote from: Patrick on April 25, 2017, 11:47:12 amLocal or foreign?It's pretty hard to beat easy equities on ease of use and fees locally. For foreign, the cheapest is de giro. No minimum, no monthly fees, but you need a US or EU bank account.Patrick, Quick one!I have a Netherlands account open which I use to administer a pretty much US-based investment portfolio I have this as I lived there several years ( now back in SA )Looking at De Giro , definitely look like the best fee structure vs a bank To sign up though they were asking for EU or UK address ? are there ways around that?
Local or foreign?It's pretty hard to beat easy equities on ease of use and fees locally. For foreign, the cheapest is de giro. No minimum, no monthly fees, but you need a US or EU bank account.
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