Which broker to choose for Index funds/ETFs?

mc_teo

I was looking into investing some small saving I have, in Vanguard. The problem is, you need €100k to deal directly with them, or find a broker than deals with them. Despite many of Vanguards mutual funds, and ETFs being domiciled in Ireland, I couldn't find many banks/brokers here that deal with Vanguard, so it seems my options for brokers are extremely limited.

The options I have researched so far are:

DavySelect:

• Quarterly Maintenance Fee: €20
• 0.5% commission for stock trades or ETFs, with a minimum charge of €14.99
• 0.0% commission for funds

KeytradeBank:

• No maintenance fee
• Range of fees depending on which stock market
• €9.95 entry fee for funds; no exit fee, or annual fee

TD Direct Savings (Irish/EU branch of TD Ameritrade):

• Inactive Account (no trades in last quarter or less than €5000 balance) Fee: €15
• Commission Fee: Frequent Trader (more than 10 times in quarter): €15; Standard Trader: €20
• £1.50 Dividend reinvestment fee

Does anyone have any suggestions? At the moment I'm leaning towards KeytradeBank, simply due to the low fees. Has anyone invested in Vanguard through these to get a better idea of actual cost?

FURET

mc_teo wrote: »

I was looking into investing some small saving I have, in Vanguard. The problem is, you need €100k to deal directly with them, or find a broker than deals with them. Despite many of Vanguards mutual funds, and ETFs being domiciled in Ireland, I couldn't find many banks/brokers here that deal with Vanguard, so it seems my options for brokers are extremely limited.

The options I have researched so far are:

DavySelect:

• Quarterly Maintenance Fee: €20
• 0.5% commission for stock trades or ETFs, with a minimum charge of €14.99
• 0.0% commission for funds

KeytradeBank:

• No maintenance fee
• Range of fees depending on which stock market
• €9.95 entry fee for funds; no exit fee, or annual fee

TD Direct Savings (Irish/EU branch of TD Ameritrade):

• Inactive Account (no trades in last quarter or less than €5000 balance) Fee: €15
• Commission Fee: Frequent Trader (more than 10 times in quarter): €15; Standard Trader: €20
• £1.50 Dividend reinvestment fee

Does anyone have any suggestions? At the moment I'm leaning towards KeytradeBank, simply due to the low fees. Has anyone invested in Vanguard through these to get a better idea of actual cost?

Interactive Brokers without a doubt. Their fees are outstandingly low compared with the providers you mentioned. Some caveats:

• You need 10k USD currency equivalent to open a Interactive Brokers account
• Only buy ETFs that trade of European exchanges (such as VEUR, VUSA, VUSD, VDEM, VERX etc, and iShare equivalents). There is no minimum investment amount to purchase these ETFs.
• Never keep more than the currency equivalent of 60k USD in cash in the brokerage account.

Mort5000

Saxo

ixus

Mort5000 wrote: »

Saxo

Might want to see their outcome from Swiss event.

Mort5000

ixus wrote: »

Might want to see their outcome from Swiss event.

There we go.

merryberry

Is aplari gone gone?