BigPay got option for USD transfer?

I can only see Philippines (PHP), Indonesia (IDR), Singapore (SGD) and Thailand (THB)

Non UK & Aus residents get an account with eToro's entity domiciled in Cyprus. CySec has very weak regulation, home to many dodgy forex and options brokers. Be warned

is etoro better than ibkr?

but bond prices can go up in value, ASNB cannot.

so the potential upside for bonds is higher, no? during recessions when stocks go down, bond prices go up. But ASNB doesn't, dividend might actually go down.

Can try ambank bond fund also. Asnb is quite unique for Malaysian. U won't lose principal in Asnb fixed price, that fulfills one major point of bond (security)

Doesn't matter if you have a USD S&P500 fund mixed with EUR S&P500 fund. Once you've paid for units of a fund you're holding the value the underlying companies instead of denomination currency.

See here.
https://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopic=4856464&hl=

hehe....good ma.... appreciate his work also..

yes 15% terbest for malaysian. syukurlah donald trump only collect 15% and allow us to hoot intel facebook berkshire apple netflix mcd microsoft all combined in a simple sp500

If you're talking about hedged class of a fund, in my opinion is I wouldn't bother - it's still a 50/50 gamble and you might end up hedging for lower returns in the end. Plus the currency forward contracts adds up to the total expense ratio. Unless you know something about that currency pair and really you should be trading currency futures instead of accumulating index funds.

Lol wrong link. Should be this one:
ETF: Irish domiciled ETF vs US, WHT benefit vs expense ratio bid spread

My calculation was based on the closing price everyday. Closing price is the last transaction that took place that day. It can be at the bid or ask price. So it's fair.
I was using all of the samples. Imagine yourself buying the index everyday at the closing price with $10 for 9 years.
Then, what is your average return p.a.? Basically that's what I did for an S&P 500 tracked in US vs the one listed in London.

My findings show that US domiciled S&P 500 wins.

Meaning the benefit of lower expense ratio and lower tracking error exceeds the benefit of lower WHT.

However, I can still try to perform hypothesis testing to see whether the difference is significant or purely by chance.

questions about WHT, I got confused.

A Malaysian citizen buying Irish domiciled ETF, WHT is 15%.

What if,
a US citizen buying Irish domiciled ETF, is the WHT 15% or 30%?
A Japanese citizen buying Irish domiciled ETF, is the WHT 15% or 30%?

Withholding Tax (WHT) is only applicable for US non-resident alien.
Withholding tax is cash which the resident company holds to pay to the government on your behalf.
If they fail to keep this cash before distributing profits to you, they will still be liable to pay to the government.

Hence, US citizen do not have to pay WHT but pay according to their usual tax rates. I believe they measure the % based on each person's income.
Just like Malaysia. When you file income tax, there is a section for dividends received. However, we do not pay dividend tax because currently, it's exempt.
In future, we may have to.
WHT 15%. If you look at my thread. The dividends are already 'priced in' into the share price. Hence, the ETF does not pay dividends out but the NAV increases, and thus the price of the ETF itself. But someone point out if I am wrong.

Isn't Malaysian securities dividend (other than REITs) taxed at corporate level (single tier dividend) instead?

e.g. Maybank gets taxed 24% by LHDN -> shareholder 0% by LHDN -> whichever tax bracket % you're in by IRS

Withholding Tax (WHT) is only applicable for US non-resident alien.

Yes. My statement is still correct because Japanese also follow the 15% if they buy the Irish domiciled ETF.

Edit: for clarity. The Irish domiciled ETF already pays the 15% dividend because it is applicable to them. Whether or not your own country has additional taxes is a different story.

This why I'd rather invest in Irish domiciled funds, then can sleep peacefully.
I think there's no such thing as estate tax or inheritance tax for non-Irish residents.

i currently looking at this : BNP Paribas Easy S&P 500 UCITS ETF EUR C (ESE.PA), listed in France, dividend will be reinvested into the ETF.
Current price EUR 12-13 per share, quite cheap also.

Should be able to address the WHT issue?

I think you didn't get my message, the dividend for this ETF will be reinvested in the ETF again.
Meaning, there is no dividend from this ETF, hence, it should not subject to any WHT.

Unless you are saying there is WHT attach to the capital gain subsequently when dispose the ETF.

This is not correct lo .... the SXR8 that we talked about also auto reinvest, still got withholding tax.

If don't want WHT, then don't declare dividend like Warren B. If declare, sure tax, doesn't matter auto re-invest or not.