Interactive Brokers Allows U.S. Expats To Invest With Index Funds
If you’re an American international teacher, you might have a tough time opening a U.S. based investment account.
Plenty of sharks offer offshore options.
But these accounts cost a fortune in fees, they incur massive IRS taxes (when filed properly) and they hammer investors who try to withdraw money before a predetermined date. Investors aren’t often told about these penalties.
I’ve just written about an excellent, low cost alternative for American expats, whether they want to DIY or use one of two investment guides to help them.
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Hi.
My wife and I are US citizens who live in Singapore. We have an US based advisor who is associated with UBS. She has be advising us for the last 7 years and charging us 1.5%. We have decided to end our relationship with our advisor and UBS.
We have both our IRAs and Roth IRAs with our advisor.
We also have 2 college savings account (529s) through our advisor.
I have researched Andrew’s articles and have read both his books.
What are my options to roll over our IRAs, Roths, and 529s since none of the US based discount brokers will allow us to create accounts?
Any pointers will be much appreciated.
Nawaz,
Contact this gentleman. He can help with what you want to do: http://planvisionmn.com/our-story/mark-zoril/
Cheers,
Andrew
Thanks. Have contacted Mark and will engage him.
hi Andrew,
I have been reading about binary options, what’s your opinion about shares and binary options as I m new to shares.
thank you
kannan
Hi Andrew!
Thanks for all the great work you do. I really enjoy Millionaire Teacher and have used it to help define my investing strategy.
I’m an American citizen which obviously complicates the investing situation if you’re an expat. Is your new book The Global Expatriate’s Guide to Investing relevant for American citizens? As a Canadian citizen and resident I’ll probably retire here but the US citizenship adds considerable complication to investing. Do you have any advice for people that are in my situation? Canada has some great low fee ETFs that I could build (e.g. Canadian Couch Potato strategy) so I’d like to go that route. Do you have any suggestions?