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For questions about brokerage firms, opening a brokerage account, etc. Questions asking for specific service recommendations are off-topic.

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A Living Trust, and Individual account and SPIC

So by having $700K in the investment portfolio stored at that brokerage, the trust would be $200K above the SIPC limit. …
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Automatic investments for cheap

ETrade allows this without fees (when investing into one of the No-Load/No-Fees funds from their list). The Sharebuilder plan is better when investing into ETF's or stocks, not for mutual funds, their …
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What does "this trade was unsolicited" mean on a brokerage confirmation?

It means that you decided on your own, no-one from the firm approached you with a suggestion that might have lead to this trade.
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Is Tradeking collecting too much information when I open an Roth IRA?

I have never been requested to send a voter registration card. What on earth for? It sounds as if you don't have a credit report available on your SSN, so they're having trouble verifying your identit …
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Will foreigners using a US broker to buy non-US stocks be subjected to 30% withholding tax o...

It depends on whether the dividends are distributed by a US entity or not. While companies may be head-quartered in one location, the jurisdiction under which they're organized may be elsewhere entire …
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Can I open an investment account in the US for my US citizen sister living abroad?

They will not open an account if you come in wanting to open an account for a third party. Your sister will have to do it herself. Assuming she has a SSN and credit history to verify her identity, sh …
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Vanguard legacy mutual fund account held shares of the same fund that's used for brokerage s...

Is there any reason to continue keeping VMFXX as a separate holding when it could be in the settlement account as the same fund? No. The sweep fund will show up as balance available for trading, the …
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Fastest way to do direct transfer of from bank IRA to brokerage IRA?

You can request a direct cash rollover, in which your old custodian (Synchrony) will liquidate all the holdings and send a check for the full amount to you, but payable to the new custodian (I.e.: "Va …
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How can I request and verify that my identity information is purged from a bank I no longer ...

According to the privacy policies of at least some of the banks and financial institutions, they reserve the right to keep your information even after you have ceased all relationship with them. You c …
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Brokerage's calculation of my profits or losses on stock trades

Each stock you sell corresponds to a stock you bought. For each stock you bought - there's a price that you paid. If you bought 1 lot of 100 shares for $100 each, and another lot of 100 shares for $2 …
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Why would a financial services company force their customers to link their checking accounts...

For example a while ago only E*Trade brokerage customers could open their high-yield online savings account. I don't know if it is still the case, but it was when I opened it several years ago. … There's no legal requirement to have a brokerage account linked to your checking or savings account. …
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Recently my mother died - how to handle her living trust account

The trust account names should be titled as per the trust document. It should be spelled out in the trust document explicitly. For the estate it should probably be defined in the probate documents. Na …
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What is the difference for an end user between a US bank account, and a US brokerage account...

I was "yelled at" by Fidelity reps for using their brokerage account as a bank account without making any investments for a while. … Both Schwab and Fidelity do have a cash management account, which is not a brokerage account and is more akin to a traditional bank account. …
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If I transfer brokerages for a taxable investment account, who is responsible for sending Fo...

Each brokerage will send you 1099 for the transactions that occurred in its accounts. …
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How are brokerage accounts protected from theft, computer glitches and fraud?

A protection similar to FDIC for banks is provided to brokerage accounts' owners by SIPC. … Neither FDIC nor SIPC provide protection or insurance against identity thefts or frauds, only bank/brokerage failures. Your investment losses are obviously not insured either. …
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