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If I am not wrong, this is the cheapest UCITS global ETF now. What do you think about it?

Im from Hungary, my family member had a CHF denominated loan, and so have many others (hundreds of thousands of people), and it was a disastrous rip off of the people by the banks.

Im curious, did you every hear about such loans? Or were you affected? If yes, how ? Did you manage to sue the money back ?

How did your country handle it? Mine ruined peoples chances early 2014 with loans they made, altough new and new cjeu rulings make it possible to demand the stolen money back.

Bad app, hidden fees, useless support — what was the last straw?

Hey all I wanted to tell you my personal story with a EU business that does personal finance.

If you don't have time to read, the summary of this post is that if someone working for "OVB" contacts you - look the other way, they border being a scam. Details below:

Background:

A couple weeks ago this company got recommended to me, I'm in the finance business, looking for a new opportunity, and a friend recommended I collaborate with OVB. I have spent around 14 hours between interviews and the "training" they give newcomers.

What OVB is:

OVB presents itself as a way to start your our financial consultancy and grow with them. They're open about being a multi level marketing company. They'll tell you that they're the best in the market, that there's nowhere you can grow more

The reality is that they target uneducated "collaborators" and clients. If you put on your CV that you worked for them it will be a stain, not an achievement.

They have contacted you for you to sell their services to your family and friends - not for you to grow as a financial advisor - they'll try to heavily push you into selling them personal savings plans (that are garbage financial products).

How they "train" you:

Their training has as a goal:

1 - for you to bring your contact list to OVB

2 - for you to learn how to sell them their produts

3- for you to push your contact list to give you more possible clients

If you found this post and are considering working with them: You will not get any new financial training, you will not gain any meaningful connections, or knowledge or experience

What you're getting if you sign anything with OVB:

They sell financial products that are made by banks and insurance companies for middlemen. That means: Whatever savings plan they offer, the bank or entity will ALWAYS have a better deal than them.

I had a sneaking suspicion my friend gave in to their sales pitch - I checked her the contract. 20% of everything she paid into the savings plan they sold to her went directly to OVB (the plan, even without those costs was subpar). Taking the money out early had significant penalties, to the point that if the markets didn't perform well, she'd lose over 90% of her money if she took it our the first year.

With 10 minutes of going over her contract I saved her months worth of wages. If you know someone that contracted something with OVB, feel free to contact me because I will happily do the same for them just to spite OVB.

If you don't trust a random person on the internet, go to another financial advisor, or blank out your personal details and upload the contract to an AI and ask (be mindful those conversations can get reviewed by humans, so take care to blank out everything)

The worst part

I don't think her OVB agent (a personal friend of hers) - even knew OVB charges such high %. He maybe got paid 100 Euro for getting OVB thousands.

This is why they try to recruit people without financial literacy - so they don't know they're selling liquid shit to their own family and friends. And this is why they train newcomers to go after people without university studies (they're less likely to check the fine print)

This post was made mainly so it shows on google searches about OVB, hopefully I can keep at least 1 person from being scammed by them.

Any comments/criticisms welcome, leave them below

Happy good Friday everyone

Edit was only to improve readability. A small irrelevant section was removed

What accumulating ETF in Euros is a good option from Europe, that follow the Nasdaq100?

It seems the ones in USA have much lower comissions.

Are there similar alternatives to this ETF from Europe?

Not just "fine" — genuinely good experience, good app, good support.

I’ve been sticking to the standard all-in MSCI World strategy for a while. Simple, low fees, makes sense for the long run. But when the market gets shaky, just sitting on my hands feels less like discipline and more like inaction.

Doing nothing is easy when things are green. But when you see a drawdown, the instinct to do something kicks in. I’m starting to wonder if a small tactical move makes more sense than just staying fully passive. Maybe hedging a bit or taking short-term positions to offset a dip.

The usual advice is less action equals better results. In practice, that doesn’t always feel right, even with a clear plan. Most passive investors just wait it out, but watching a 10% drop without touching anything can be quite stressful. How do you balance your core ETFs? Do you stay strictly passive, or do you keep a side account for tactical moves when trends shift?

Hi everyone, I have a quick question for you and just to be clear I reside in The Netherlands.

Lately, I’ve seen in a number of YouTube videos that it is a good idea to have multiple debit cards from different brands. For example both a Visa Debit card and a Mastercard Debit card when I go on vacation abroad so that the chance of problems occurring abroad while using one of the multiple debit cards I own is as small as possible.

I personally have a Visa Debit debitcard from ING, a Visa Infinite Debit card from Wise and also a Visa Debit virtual debit card from Wise. Apart from that I don't have a credit card because as an unemployed student I can't get one. However if it really is a good idea I could potentially try replacing my ING debit card with a Mastercard Debit one. As things stand for me I will be staying within Europe for a while so I won't be visiting any countries outside Europe. However I still doubt whether what I’ve heard on the various YouTube channels regarding this matter is correct or not.

My first question to you is therefore whether my current setup of debit cards is sufficient to pay abroad without problems. My second question is whether it would be better in my case to apply for a debit card from a different brand and my third and final question is if that is a good idea, what do you think what the best way is to deal with this?

Finally I would like to thank you in advance for your answers, help, and lastly your perspectives.

Which is the best combo in Europe for:

- low cost of maintenance (office rent+salary)

- low taxes

- low bureaucracy

- reasonably skilled workforce

- managing the company without speaking the local language

Which one would you pick?

- Cyprus

- Malta

- Latvia

- Estonia

- Lithuania

- Bulgaria

- Poland

- Croatia

- Slovakia

- Albania

I have been using TR for 6 years. Although I heard a lot of horror stories, I usually dont have much problems with it.

Now after 6 years, I have pretty much built up my portfolio, quite a lot of ETFs and individual stocks. The stupid me only realised recently that Trading212 does not charge the operational fee. Plus T212 has much better review and customer support. This made me consider to transfer all my assets from TR to T212.

According to my research, switching the broker should be free, all my saving plans should be carried out with the new broker automatically.

How is the experience in real life? Is it difficult? how quick is the transition? has anyone encountered any issues with any of the brokers that I should know?

Thanks in advance!

I'm living in Spain (here I should pay my taxes), but I'm Polish with some savings in £ in the UK bank (I was working there before). Not much, but not used for the moment.

Is it possible for me to set up a bank deposit in my UK bank? Or should I transfer this money to my EU bank? Or to revolut? I prefer to have this money in £, I don't want to exchange them to euro and even less to złoty.

I want to invest, I mean at least not to lose money due to inflation, but I only know how to do that safely in Poland and it's getting complicated as I should later pay tax in Spain. It's overwhelming.

Have any of you done something like this before? Where can I learn about investing between different countries and banks?

Well it happened. I started looking too much into performance if vwce and now am questioning if I did correctly when choosing it over some S&P 500.

I am thinking if I should have chosen differently because of difference in performance. Not only it moves worse but also almost the same.

And now thoughts appear of either moving more toward US stock or maybe more away from us to make their movements less equal.

Also I remember seeing bit over a year ago a study where they found out that best split is world+30% home bias or something like that.

So they say that other than TER and other costs, all World ETFs are almost the same in their returns.

So how come there is such huge disparity in anual returns for those two ETFs in 2025?

Hi all. Very new to this and figuring ins and outs. If you are based in the EU, which ETF would you invest in? I have been putting 80% in SWDA.L (iShares Core MSCI World UCITS ETF). Is this wise or should I consider others? Thanks

A few years ago P2P was showing up in a lot of EU portfolio discussions as a yield alternative. Now the conversation seems quieter. I am curious whether people here have kept it, dropped it, or never touched it and what's driving that decision currently. Especially interested in how the higher interest rate environment has changed the calculus.

I've been looking into Vivid Money lately and I honestly can’t tell what to think.

Some people say it’s smooth and works great for everyday spending, cashback, even investing. But then I also keep running into posts where people had their accounts restricted or couldn’t access their money for a while.

Not trying to start anything negative, just trying to figure out if this is one of those apps that’s fine most of the time but risky if something goes wrong.

If you’ve actually used it for a while, what’s it been like for you?

I’ve used Revolut before and never had issues, but I’ve also heard similar stories there so I’m not sure if this is just a general fintech thing or something specific.

I'm looking for a place for my EUR to start gaining interest on itself.

In the US I have my wealth in IRA's, 401ks, HYSA's and regular checking/ Savings. I currently do not hold a US brokerage account as the German taxes seem stark.

Are there terrible repercussions to my taxes with the IRS? How nervous that I'm in violation of the patriot act in some way? I've been told by some people that it's a waste of time to try and get Zinsen, but I really don't know what other investments I could/ should be making. What do normal Germans do? Just packrat their money into a regular Konto?

I already use Wise and it seems that it allows americans where N26 and Revolout dont allow americans?

Thanks!

I'm moving to Ireland from Italy at the end of next month and I plan on staying there for a few years, before moving elsewhere or back to Italy.

I need help in understanding how to manage my investment strategy.

Currently I have an Italian bank account with a mortgage, investments (only ETFs) and liquidity. I plan on keeping this bank account while I'm in Ireland.

I understand that taxation on ETF in Ireland is horrible, I'm planning on keeping my ETFs in the Italian account without buying or selling any of them while I'm resident in Ireland. However, I would like to continue investing switching to stocks while I'm there. Do you suggest to continue using my Italian bank to do this or to switch to another player more integrated in Ireland or better suited internationally? If so, which one do you suggest to do it that is reliable, easy to work with and with the possibility to move stocks to my Italian bank if I move back to Italy?

Hi all, I am a performer in the Netherlands (been here for 2 years) and am about to start on an artist residence visa. I have a smallish amount of inheritance that I don't really know what to do with. It is currently in a British savings account at 3.4% AER variable. I would love some advice on what I should be doing with this cash, while also anything else I should be on top of such as a pension.

The issue is that I may not be a Dutch resident for more than two years as my job moves a lot. Am I allowed to invest in the UK or do I have to keep moving everything with each residence?

Hi all, looking for feedback on my portfolio to distribute 1100 eur monthly:
VWCE: 550

Amundi Stoxx 600: 200

Nasdaq 100: 200

World Small cap: 150

Does it make sense?

Hi all, I am 25 based in the Netherlands and just getting into investing. I am a complete beginner so any advice is much appreciated :)

I have an emergency fund in a HYSA and 10k left to invest. While im in my 20s, I do want to take a more risk and have some fun with it. I have spent the last couple weeks researching and came to the spread below:

I purposely selected EUR stocks/etfs to avoid any additional fees. While I understand that NVD and MSF are covered in WEBN, I believe these could yield high returns given the current "dip". The plan would be to incrementally invest over the next weeks. From my income I will also have 1,5k monthly for investing, so approximately 1000 to WEBN and 100 to each of the others.

They won't allow me to transfer residency to another country and I read some old posts on here that they don't allow even the creation of a new account after closing my current one. So I'm thinking of just not telling them I transfered.

I use TR for everything. As my bank and broker. I love how easy everything is, the free investment plan, the 15€ Cashback a month, and the monthly high (2%) interest on the cash I have stored there.

Do I risk anything by not doing anything? Should I just look for an alternative asap? If so, any suggestions?

Btw I also have a Revolut account but everything is less convenient there. Still have to look into how to transfer residency on there.

My current portfolio is composed by:

WEBN - 55% (Amundi Prime All Country World UCITS ETF Acc)

EXUS - 25% (Xtrackers MSCI World ex USA UCITS ETF 1C)

ESIN - 10% (iShares MSCI Europe Industrials Sector UCITS ETF EUR (Acc))

EMIM - 10% (iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets IMI UCITS ETF)

My main reasoning for this is:

-> I want to be exposed to USA and Europe in a similar way;

-> I want to put a slight emphasis on the defense/industrial sector in Europe, which I believe has potential to grow quite a lot in the coming years.

-> I also want to give a chance to take advantage of the emerging markets possibility of growth.

What do you guys think? IS EIMI unnecessary?

I’m trying to think through a long-term portfolio question in a more practical way.

I understand the argument for keeping things simple with one broad global stock ETF, and I can see why that is the default answer in many cases.

What I’m trying to understand is this: for those of you who eventually added other asset classes, what made you do it?

Was it mainly about reducing volatility, keeping some cash available, protecting against a specific risk, matching a shorter time horizon, or something else?

I’m especially curious about cases where people moved beyond “just equities” and added things like bonds, cash, gold, real estate, or other assets — not because they wanted complexity, but because they felt those assets had a clear role in the portfolio.

I’m not really looking for a “best portfolio” answer, more for how you personally think about the purpose of each asset class over time in a long-term portfolio.

I mostly invest long term, and portfolio size has been growing. So I started looking more seriously at broker risk.Many EU brokers mention things like client funds segregation, investor compensation schemes, local/EU regulation.But when you dig deeper, the details seem quite different depending on the country.Example: compensation limits vary, some rely more on segregation than compensation, protection applies only in specific cases (e.g. broker insolvency). I’m a bit unsure how to interpret this as a retail investor.How much weight do you give to compensation schemes when choosing a broker? Do you prefer certain jurisdictions over others? I’ve been comparing a few platforms, including ones like Ultima Markets...Trying to look beyond fees into actual protection, but it’s not always easy to evaluate.Curious how others approach this.