Quote Originally Posted by 100101 View Post
After putting up with excessive asb difficulties which have got a lot worse this year contacted ASB.
They said that they prefer that Microsoft Explorer! is used.

Well sorrry but I prefer Firefox which doesn't seem to handle ASB well.

Looking to move to Direct Broking which seems pretty near the same as ASB except:-

It looks a slightly better deal on brokerage charges - better maximums.

And while Asb allow Ozzy dollars to be withdrawn as Ozzy dollars from ones cash management AU$ fund (for the next Ozzy Holiday) from any of their branches, whereas it seems that Direct require one to move ozzy dollars to NZ dollars and then Buy Ozzy dollars from the proceeds, which doesn't look good.

Anyone know any other differences between ASB v Direct broking online share-trading sites??
If you have an AUD bank account - you can get AUD$ paid out to that. It isn't mentioned on the website, but if you ring them up, they are happy to do it.
The portfolio works well for me (it would be nice if they had a daily movement view though).
Haven't used ASB yet - a need to use IE makes me even less inclined to look closer at them.