How to Buy ING Direct Stocks
ING (NYSE: ING) is a global financial services company that offers banking, insurance, asset management, investment and other services. The company does business in Europe, Asia the United States, Canada and Australia. Buying ING stock is relatively easy if you have a full-service or online brokerage account.
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Research the company and its fundamentals. It is important to know the strengths and weaknesses of the company you want to invest in as well as any reports that might affect the stock price and future performance of the company. See links in References below to the Yahoo Finance and Motley Fool pages on ING .
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Figure out how much you want to invest. Your investment objectives--be they short or long term--will determine how much of your investment dollars go into this stock. Remember to ensure you have a diversified portfolio.
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Contact your broker or open an online brokerage account. Many financial institutions offer online brokerage accounts, including Fidelity, E*Trade, Sharebuilder and Schwab. Each has its unique features, but an important one is the lack of minimums to open an account that Sharebuilder provides. Interestingly, ING owns Sharebuilder.
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Link your checking account to your brokerage account. You can then fund your stock purchase.
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Buy your ING stocks. If you set up an automatic investment account, such as the one from Sharebuilder, and pick ING as one of your stocks, some of your dollars will automatically be allocated to buying ING stocks every month.
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