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How to cost efficiently convert SGD to USD into following brokerages to invest in USD? SCB Tiger TD Ameritrade FSMone?
Hello Seedly Community, appreciate if you can share how you convert your SGD into USD to buy equities / ETFs in SCB or Tiger or TD Ameritrade or FSMOne. I only have singapore bank account (doesn't have america bank account). Will transferwise or instarem works? worth? any other better options?
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Nicholas Beh
30 Nov 2020
Student Ambassador 2020/21 at Seedly
From what I remember, these are how the brokers rank in terms of cost of currency conversion (SGD to USD only):
Interactive Brokers (spot rate, 0.002% commission min 2 USD)
TD Ameritrade (DBS preferential rate**, no fees)
FSMOne (0.2-0.4% spread)
Tiger Brokers (0.2-0.4% spread)
SCB (0.3-0.7% spread)
Saxo (0.75% currency conversion fee)
**TD Ameritrade's currency conversion comes with a major disadvantage - rates are not locked in as it takes approximately 2-3 working days for them to process. This means that the rate that you see at the point of transfer may not be the same rate used to convert.
Here are the rates that I currently see at the moment (Nov 30, 2020 at 4:06PM):
IBKR: 1.33752 (spot)
FSMOne: 1.34094 (0.25% spread)
Tiger: 1.3417 (0.31% spread)
SCB: 1.34292 (0.40% spread)āāā
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Rahul Wadhwa
29 Nov 2020
Student Ambassador 2020/21 at Seedly
Hi Anon,
As Nicholas has mentioned the rates roughly, let me share an additional way.
I personally...
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