Don't. Want to know why? Local brokerage charge higher commission + dividend fees + maintenance fee.

Open interactive broker/8 securities or charles schwab. Better options.

As long as listed on stock exchange and you are willing to pay the transfer in fees, local brokerage will be more than happy to accept you. Of course I don't know if they accept private equities.

@ramjade thanks to your sharing, i have managed to transfer MYR to USD at TransferWise via Instarem with a loss of 0.275% (instarem fee plus forex loss). apparently, the cost of transferring my USD from TW to IB (US account) is USD1 fixed via wire transfer but it is slow; my first ever transfer will take one week. i will then be converting my USD to Euro via IB to purchase some VWRL ETF.

Krv23490, have you considered VWRL, Vanguard FTSE All-World UCITS ETF which has much bigger and diverse portfolio and ireland-domiciled? may i know why you chose to buy at HKEX?

ETF baby here. Why buy more ETF now when the economy is so volatile? One day up, next day down, one week up, next week down.

Don't time the market?

Yes, with volatile market now, I still prefer to stay put, wait and see.

would you mind sharing your cost on purchasing etf via HKEX using fsmone? i did not know FSM Singapore sells Vanguard ETFs as FSM Malaysia doesn't if i'm not mistaken.

my total cost per annum when i buy Vanguard ETF VWRL ireland-domiciled is around 0.80% pa. this cost includes trading cost (purchase twice a year plus forex losses and fees MYR->Euro), tax witholding and fund expense. i am using captrader which uses IB as its backend fyi.

thanks for sharing. the website seems to show 50 HKD min. still better than our local brokerage.

Saw this ETF heat map today.

Basically in the about to be more RED phase, in my biased view. Ha.

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Look at the bottom right for the color indication.

Consider these 2 extremes:

ALL GREEN = all ETF are returning at 3+%

ALL RED = all ETF are returning at -3%

What is indicated in the heat map now is ......

hmm, so i checked d....i want to hoot UK vanguard ETF....the cheapest is Cap Trader...with 8 GBP per order....

So, I use Instrarem TT to Cap Trader, ok?

safe to proceed?

they say fsmone annual fee killing, is it true?

So easy to open overseas bank acct ????

If PB,  very easy to open. As someone said Cimb SG all online.

Not to mentioned worth TW and soon to joint the gang,  Revolut.
Annual fees only applicable for unit trust/bonds/US stocks  bought on FSMOne platform

Apu... Instarem need interview and must be conducted in KL only? Like that how to attract customer?

Two new Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) listed on Bursa Malaysia issued by Affin Hwang for the first time, consisting of two new ETF domiciled in MYR and USD.

The Tradeplus S&P New China Sector ETF debut under the ticker 0829EA and 0829EB with 0829EA closing up 13 sen to RM5.41 on a volume of 102,500 shares whilst the USD counterpart did not trade with its last bid price at USD1.295.

Hi Guys

I wish to confirm that I was able to fund the Interactive Brokers account in SGD via Maybank Malaysia. Easy! I did an online telegraphic transfer in SGD to their account with Citibank in Singapore.

Maybank may have blocked TT USD transfers to Interactive Brokers account in the USA, but it looks like the Singapore route is open.

I also opened CIMB Singapore account online in a very straightforward way. Still awaiting the delivery of security device.

Is anyone investing in Singapore REITs??

I am thinking of buying some shares in three Singaporean banks, OCBC, UOB, DBS. Their dividends look good and the P/E is much better than Malaysian banks' PEs.

Captrader accepts money from instarem?

wt_vinci has experience with Instarem -> Captrader.

Another way is to open a SG bank account (Maybank/CIMB is the easiest way):

Instarem (SGD)-> SG bank -> Captrader (free transfer via FAST).

However, Captrader only support SWIFT for SGD withdrawal which will incur S$10 charges by the bank (Inward TT charges).
The SWIFT transfer is free once a month.