What's a good platform to buy international shares?

[psailagroup]

Hi All,

I currently use NAB for ASX purchases but I am looking at buying some international shares as well.

can any one suggest a platform apart from commsec...

Cheers
JP

 

[bellenuit]

Hi All,

I currently use NAB for ASX purchases but I am looking at buying some international shares as well.

can any one suggest a platform apart from commsec...

Cheers
JP

Interactive Brokers, but they currently have some issues regarding margin lending which need to be sorted out.

 

[hseldon1234]

IB should suit if you are reasonably active, but if you only do buy and hold, it may not suit.

Previously I did not do much international (US) trades as I was with E*TRADE and their services for US weren't really that good. Left CommSec years ago and never looked back.

Joined IB about a month ago. Getting the account up and running was a bit of hassle the first time I went through it. But once the platform is up and running, it makes me feel the aussie brokers I used before were dinosaurs.

I have since opened another account for someone else in the family, since I now know what is expected, it was much smoother and easy. I attribute the initial hassle more due to me not familiar with what they expect.