From almost any Internet trading site you can get stock picks, analysis and financial and corporate news. What's more, it is pressure free. You are not relying on the suggestions of someone who may have a financial incentive to push a particular product. Trades can be faster because they go directly from your computer to the dealing floor, cutting out the middleman. And they are often cheaper, especially for foreign stocks.
Investors can now tap into more than a hundred online trading sites.
Schwab also offers 200 Hong Kong-registered mutual funds. Other sites call Asia home, like Boom, which launched its Hong Kong-based service in March. DBS has linked its banking and trading operations, making it easy to transfer money between accounts. A few places in Asia, including Malaysia, still restrict trading through brokers on the Net. But some local banks in Malaysia and the Philippines have set up services that allow customers to trade electronically through the banks' own systems.