Recent content by eklia

Yes the situation is not good and getting worse, but if you have the money and if you come out with a good plan, you can live a quality life. The situation is bad for the Italian people that work as employee (they give 60% of their salary in taxes and they don't get enough money for a quality...

They don't want to allow me to trade in the USA stock exchange. Do you know which are the requirements? Could you explain what is covered call ETF? In Europe we don't have that and I'm not so skilled :D You're right I should leave EU...

Guys what do you recommend do buy being resident in Europe? Here it's not easy to trade in the USA stock exchange :( For example on IBK I can't buy stock on USA stock exchange... Currently I'm just holding some ETFs like MSCI World, SP500 and similars. How would you set your portfolio for live...

Qonto is good for Italian companies.

You don't know about Italian people. So the tolerance threshold of Italians will surprise you. It's been decades that they're suffering, but they have a huge tolerance, no one is protesting in the street. The only one protest for Italians is when they speak with familiars at dinner and they...

@Marzio can you PM me?

I have been there (I mean Trento and Bolzano) several times and I never had problems speaking Italian. And probably you can survive there speaking english since the people there are more educated and cultured than other part of Italy. But just survive, not living. They're also multi-cultural...

Italian people don't speak English, you cannot live there without speaking Italian. Como, Trento and Bolzano (provinces included) are the best places where to live a quality and safe life, the rest is just chatter. Milano and south Italy are bad.

Guys are you declaring >35K or less? Are you paying the 5K + amount on money remitted in Malta? Because I'm hearing about some people that don't want to pay and so always submitting declarations <35K. I'm curious about it.

Can you tell about commissions a costs ?

could I be lucky too?

How to open with Barclays? And I saw they don't accept all residence. That's why I was considering HSBC

Thank you both. What about if you hold for example 80K EUR? Is it considered as >50K GPB? Or you need to hold in GBP currency?

Thank you! And what about if balance >100k?

Hi all, I'm planning to open a bank account with HSBC Expat. I have few questions and I would be grateful if you can help me. 1) Is possibile to send EUR and USD via bank transfer to HSBC Expat bank account? Or to they accept only GBP? 2) SEPA is not supported and it's possible to operate only...