An international broker is a brokerage firm that offers U.S. and/or international investors the ability to buy and sell stocks across the globe. To qualify as an international broker for our review, a brokerage firm must be U.S.-based and U.S.-regulated.

For some investors, however, general exposure is not as profitable as targeting specific stocks only sold in their domestic markets. General exposure to the Japanese market, for example, may be too general if an investor is really looking to target Japanese advanced materials companies. Similarly, a global oil fund washes out regional differences in both the risk and returns that companies face in terms of regulatory compliance, political stability, domestic subsidies, proven reserves, and so on. Investors with a particular fundamental outlook on a market or sector may look to invest directly in that market to test the investment thesis in the purest trade possible. ETFs and other tools can be used as proxies, but they dilute the trade by bundling in other assets outside of the target ones.

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