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The FIRE Exit
The broker guide
The broker guide

Saxo.

What Saxo really costs a monthly index buyer, what protects your money, who does your tax paperwork, and what leaving costs. From its own price sheet, dated, with no affiliate link anywhere on the page.

Every figure verified against the brokers’ own price sheets: July 2026. Fee schedules reprice mid-year. If that date looks old, check the price sheet before acting.

What Saxo costs, on the example

The bill this year
€36
Twenty years of it
≈ €4,066.13

The example pattern: €300 a month, no pot, a euro-listed fund. Your pattern is different: run yours through The Broker Bill

where that sits among the nine

The facts

  • Available in29 countries, on its published list; the UK too, via its UK entity
  • The monthly buy0.08% · min €3 · manual order
  • Recurring€0/yr + 0.1875% of the pot
  • Conversion0.25%
  • Savings planmanual, whole units
  • ProtectionDanish Guarantee Fund: instruments up to €20,000; cash to €100,000 (it is the bank)
  • The cashCash is a deposit at Saxo Bank A/S itself, covered to the €100,000 equivalent by the Danish guarantee fund.
  • Does your taxes inDenmark, France
  • The exitIn-kind transfer out €50 per ISIN, capped at €160; bonds travel free.

The honest note

The premium end: a Danish bank, designated systemically important, with access to practically every market — and, since a 2024 overhaul, fees that compete instead of apologising. The structural difference is the custody fee: a yearly percentage of everything you hold (plus VAT for EU residents), the one cost the free apps don't charge; and per-order minimums that make tiny monthly buys proportionally expensive, with no auto-invest or fractions for most EU clients. Wrong shape for a €200 drip; a reasonable shape for a large, settled portfolio that values a bank-grade counterparty and doesn't buy in sips.

Saxo: the fine print
Who you deal with

Saxo Bank A/S: Danish banking licence, Danish FSA; branches across the EU

The route

Manual order, 0.08% with a €3 minimum on Xetra-type venues: €3 flat on any buy up to €3,750. Prices “vary according to the country of residency” (its words); the Netherlands runs a different model entirely.

The plan

No auto-invest outside Denmark (AutoInvest is DK-only, in kroner, whole units) and no fractional shares: monthly buys are manual, whole units.

The cash

Cash is a deposit at Saxo Bank A/S itself, covered to the €100,000 equivalent by the Danish guarantee fund.

The taxes

Denmark: reports everything; the tax return arrives pre-filled. France: issues the IFU, but only for accounts under its French branch. Elsewhere you file yourself.

The exit

In-kind transfer out €50 per ISIN, capped at €160; bonds travel free.

Where it operates

It advertises accounts in these countries, on its published list:

all 29 countries
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Croatia
  • Czechia
  • Denmark
  • Estonia
  • Finland
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Luxembourg
  • Malta
  • Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • Slovenia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Monaco

The UK runs through a separate entity, with its own protection scheme.

Tax-sheltered accounts it documents: aktiesparekonto (Denmark), ISA (United Kingdom).

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Common questions

What does Saxo cost?
On the example I use everywhere on this site, €300 a month into one euro-listed ETF, Saxo works out at €36 a year. That's a manual order each month, its cheapest sensible route. Your own pattern changes the number: the Broker Bill prices your buy, your pot and your country.
Is Saxo safe?
It's a regulated firm you can verify in its regulator's public register. If it failed, the backstop is the Danish Guarantee Fund: instruments up to €20,000; cash to €100,000 (it is the bank). That protects against the firm failing, not against your funds falling in value. The fine print above names the exact entity you'd contract with.
Does Saxo do my tax paperwork?
Partly. Denmark: reports everything; the tax return arrives pre-filled. France: issues the IFU, but only for accounts under its French branch. Elsewhere you file yourself. Rare on this list: most of the nine leave the filing entirely to you.
Can I set up automatic monthly investing with Saxo?
No. No auto-invest outside Denmark (AutoInvest is DK-only, in kroner, whole units) and no fractional shares: monthly buys are manual, whole units. If hands-off monthly buying matters to you, the broker guide's picker shows which of the nine automate it.

What to hold in it

The broker is half the decision. Which fund to hold in it is the other half, and the gap between two ETFs on the same index is real money: The Tracking Gap · Every fund, in depth

The broker guide: all nine, and your bank The Broker Bill: price your own pattern

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Education, not advice. Fee schedules change and brokers reprice. Check the current price sheet before you open anything. Which broker suits you also depends on your country and your tax situation; I'm not a licensed adviser, happily.

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