Hey guys can i ask if it is better for me to buy the VOO directly from Vanguard or is it better if i bought VUSA from DBS Vickers?

I'm not sure if we are able to buy directly from Vanguard as a Singaporean. Either ways, buying VUSA from DBS Vickers will incur large costs as well as DBS Vickers charges custodian fees for foreign stocks. Try to get a low cost custodian brokerage such as Interactive Brokers or Tiger Brokers instead to avoid the custodian fees instead!

Buy with a very cheap online broker, not with Vanguard (, if they accept You as non U.S. based person anyway).

Then because of U.S. dividend taxation for Singapore investors Ireland-domiciled SP500 ETFs are much better. Sort them out on www.justetf.com and

select the largest and cheapest "physically replication" ones, surely not the "SWAP" based synthetic ones. iShares and Vanguard do well.