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@debshirl I don't think you can get away from dividends, for US ETFs makes more sense to distribute dividends to shareholders instead of accumulating them. In Europe instead laws are different so you can find many "accumulating" ETFs

@debshirl My advisor automatically builds a portfolio tailored to the needs of US citizens living abroad. The main problems for US citizen are that they need to use a US brokerage for tax reasons and that many US financial advisors don't work with them because they are not licensed to serve...

@acreativefollower Tax reporting. If you are a US person (citizen or resident) you have to report all foreign assets, that is form FBAR for cash and PFIC for assets. PFIC reporting is complicated and tax rates on them are high. PFIC stands for Passive Foreign Investment Company, all foreign...

@justanotherpoet For US citizens living abroad usually Interactive Brokers and Schwab international are good solutions. You can open an account with them and trade assets. Alpaca is a broker I have been using as well. I'm currently building an automated financial advisor in this space (similar...

@acreativefollower I think if you reside in US is better you use US brokers like Vanguard, Fidelity etc. When you will move back to Europe, depending on which country you my find slightly different rules. Usually it's possible to transfer assets in-kind between brokers, so for example...

@kimhills My experience with Vanguard has been that even if I changed my address to an EU one, everything has been working fine, so I think you can continue using it.