What's a good platform to buy international shares?

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

psailagroup said:

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

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

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.