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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

All Online Brokers Should Offer These Features

By Rex Casadus

Most people know how to buy or sell a stock, but many are too lazy to bother looking into the different features that each brokerage firm offers. Here are a few ways that an online broker tries to help its customers.

Some brokers offer retirement planning tools to see how your portfolio is doing for the long term. It would give you investment suggestions according to your goals to make sure you are on the right track.

Others are starting to offer credit card services on top of traditional investments with your account. In fact, the best cash back credit cards are actually brokerage firm credit cards. Interesting isn't it?

Bill pay plus margin broker account equals awesome flexibility. You no longer need to worry too much about cash flow because margin rates are usually so low.

Security tokens offer one more layer of security to make sure that no one is trying to log into your account without your permission. These physical keys update its pin every few seconds and is very safe.

ATM cards from brokers are great because they don't charge you any fees for withdrawal no matter where you take money out. In fact, they will give you money to compensate for the fact that other ATMs will charge you.

The brokerage firms with physical branches usually are the ones with better customer service as well. You will be happy to know that in case you have any problems and the lines are jam full or something, you can at least drive to the branch and talk to someone.

Dividend reinvestment plans are very common but actually not every broker has this option available for free. Those that don't usually charge you to buy the stocks, which almost eliminates any advantages it has.

Multiple brokers are starting to offer a high yield savings account along with the investment account. This is great because you can use it as a cash sweep account and earn high yields. - 23314

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