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- From: jxm@engin.umich.edu (John Murray)
- Subject: Re: buying foreign currency for the little guy
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 19:13:12 EST
- Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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- In article <1992Nov17.030838.8906@informix.com> proberts@informix.com (Paul Roberts) writes:
- >
- >I believe that some large US bank (Citibank?) offers an account
- >whereby you can switch between different currencies whenever you
- >wish, PLUS you earn interest on your foreign currency holdings
- >at a rate comparable to interest rates in the "target" country
- >(ie generally higher than in the US).
- >
- >I think this only recently became possible due to some change in US law.
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- Yes, this is true. US residents used to be prohibited from holding
- accounts in foreign currencies, domestically anyway. I believe Fidelity
- offers several currency mutual funds (not no-load) which you can switch
- between. Currency funds are quite common in Europe, but they are still not
- allowed to accept customers in the US. However, I think regular bank
- non-resident savings accounts can be opened, but I don't know of any
- which will do currency switching easily. If anyone knows of the US bank
- mentioned above, I'd be interested in hearing about it.
-
- John Murray
- Univ. of Michigan
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