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Vanguard does have a site for foreign investors, but they're usually just funds for whatever region you are located in. I do believe the S&P 500 ETF is available on the UK site though. The European Vanguard is located in Ireland, I think there are some funny taxation issues for non-Irish citizens.You cannot buy funds from Vanguard's US site. They don't even like to cater to US citizens living abroad.What you really need to do, is just get access to the US stock exchange. You should be able to set up a brokerage account, I believe Schwab allows foriegn investors. Then you can purchase ETF versions of Vanguards index funds. Thank you for you response, I will look at schwabbtw: there in Czech republic is Fio bank that offers free 'Fio Broker' account that as advertised offers for clients to buy and sell americans shares on among others on us stock exchanges (where are 'stored' my bought shares?
At the my broker account or somewhere in stock exchange registry?, sorry I am noob), do you think that it is possible that alsoVanguard ETF's will I be able to buy/sell from czech rep in such circumstances? What is the main cons in regard to ETF's against genuine Vanguard index funds (Total., S&P 500 etc.) investments by open us account?. Shares aren't exactly stored, you own them, your brokerage firm just handles the transactions for you.
If they go solvent, your name is on the shares, you own them still (read terms to verify this though).Just look at the fees your bank charges, use that to decide which brokerage firm to go with. It might be free to open the account, but I'm sure they charge for any transaction, and might have bad exchange rates. You're ultimately buying US stocks or ETFs, so you have to exchange your CZK to USD.ETFs can only be bought in whole, you can't buy a partial share of an ETF like you can with a mutual fund. So if you're saving away at a fixed, rate, it's slightly more difficult to manage with an ETF. Also makes reinvesting dividends a bit more complicated, have to wait until they accumulate enough to buy a whole share. That's really the only con.A Vanguard ETF, is a genuine Vanguard fund by the way.
They offer most of their index funds in two forms, ETF or Mutual Fund. Same index, just in a different form.
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