Hello. Eu Citizen, married to a japanese here. We are considering buying some etfs while we live here, but we expect to move at least for a few years to the EU within the next 2-3 years.
We checked IBKR, but with a japan based account we can only buy etfs that we cannot own in the EU (vanguard's vt, vti, qqq, or eMaxis stuff, etc). If we move to Europe, apparently we'll need to liquidate our positions and then buy EU based etfs, which is not great from a tax and buy/sell spread perspective.
Opening an ibkr eu based account is a last resort for a variety of other considerations.
Is there anybody here in a similar situation with some advice to share?
Cheers
by Weekly_Armadillo9925