I’m struggling to find advice on how to start investing that’s not US-centric. Are there any fellow Europeans (I’m nowadays based in the NL) here that have any good suggestions for where and how to start?

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Thanks for the tip, but I prefer the political climate over here!

I’ve wondered about this myself - do Europeans just not do as much “retail” investing? Or mainly using those crazy retail structured products instead of securities?

That being said, I would have thought you could still find a brokerage and a way to invest in broad indices - eg DAX, CAC40, FTSE among others.

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