Upgrading to the "Weltportfolio" by Gerd Kommer

find most important tax stuff here
the three dominating differences (afaik) with swiss brokers are

  • the trading fees are 2 orders of magnitude higher
  • if you are unlucky your broker is not “qualified” and can’t issue the w8-ben (15% reduction on us witholding tax)
  • you pay stamp tax 0.15% on top of commissions

there are a few others, but these are the prominent ones

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