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Registered Investment Advisors

Our turnkey custody solution helps advisors build a competitive advantage, manage their business with efficiency and serve clients at lower cost.*

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The IBKR Advantage

  • No ticket charges, no custodial fees, no minimums and no technology, software, platform or reporting fees.
  • IBKR does not have an advisory team or a prop trading group to compete with you for clients.
  • We provide a low-cost global trading and custody solution to advisors of all sizes.
  • Trade stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds and funds on over 150 markets
    from a single unified master account.
  • Use Tax Loss Harvesting to reduce your clients’ tax liabilities
  • Use Custom Indexing to build portfolios that are modeled after Index ETFs and easily customizable for client investment goals.
  • Free CRM, portfolio management and trading platform, plus PortfolioAnalyst®, a tool to consolidate your clients’ entire portfolio.
  • Automated and flexible client billing.
  • Free website building services.

Professional Pricing

  • IBKR offers low trading fees1 and access to stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds and funds from a single unified platform. If an exchange provides a rebate, we pass some or all of the savings directly back to you.*

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  • IBKR BestXTM is a powerful suite of advanced trading technologies designed to help clients achieve best execution and maximize price improvement while minimizing market impact.

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*For more information, see our disclaimers.

Lower investment costs will increase your overall return on investment, but lower costs do not guarantee that your investment will be profitable.

  1. Low trading fees according to BrokerChooser Online Broker Survey 2023: Read the full article Online Broker Reviews, May 2023. "Interactive Brokers has low trading fees and the best margin rates in the industry. IB currently pays interest (up to 4.83% for USD) on cash balances if you have a $100k account (net asset value)."
  2. Rates are subject to change. View our investment loan rates for more information.
  3. Rates are subject to change. Restrictions apply. For additional information,see our cash enhancement program.

Technology to Help Advisors Succeed

Trading Platforms 

Powerful, award-winning trading platforms and tools for managing client assets. Available on desktop, mobile, web and API.

Order Types and Algos 

100+ order types – from limit orders to complex algorithmic trading – help you execute any trading strategy.

Advisor Tools 

Spot market opportunities, analyze results, manage your account and make informed decisions with our free advisor tools.

Pre-Trade Allocations 

Use IBKR’s pre-trade allocations to allocate block trades to multiple accounts with a single mouse click.

Free Account Tools 

Manage taxes and corporate actions, learn about T+1 settlement and trade allocations, and read about additional tools and services available to clients.

Tax Loss Harvesting 

Reduce your clients’ tax liabilities, using Tax Loss Harvesting

Allocation Order Tool 

Transform and streamline the creation, execution and allocation of group orders. Develop and deploy investment strategies in minutes to capture opportunities in volatile markets.

Create Client-Centric Investment Portfolios

Advisor Model Marketplace 

The Model Marketplace, which is a repository of model portfolios provided by third-party vendors, helps you spend more time with clients and less time managing client-specific portfolios.

Model Portfolios 

Models allow Advisors to create groupings of financial instruments based on specific investment themes and invest client funds into the Model, rather than taking time to invest in multiple, single instruments.

Custom Indexing 

Create and customize direct index models based on the composition of ETFs tracking major indices.

Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) 

ESG scores from Refinitiv give you and your clients a new set of tools for making investment decisions based on more than just financial factors.

Impact Dashboard 

Use the Impact Dashboard to identify and invest in companies that share the values held by your clients.

IBKR Client Risk Profile 

Use the IBKR Client Risk Profile to understand client risk tolerances and recommend suitable investments for your clients.

ESG Impact Profile 

Use the ESG Impact Profile to understand client preferences related to socially responsible and impact investing.

Advisor Portal

A free and powerful client relationship management (CRM) platform for advisors on the IBKR platform.

Integrated Client Management

Manage the full client acquisition and relationship lifecycle, use a Client Risk Profile tool to understand client risk tolerances and administer each client account.

Efficient Design

Use simplified workflows, logically grouped menus and user access rights to efficiently manage your relationships from any desktop or mobile device.

Reliable Client Onboarding Processes

IBKR offers multiple options for adding clients and migrating to our platform, including a mass upload feature and support for customized client account applications using our application XML system.

Manage User Access Rights

Create one or more Security Officers for the master account and designate up to 250 users by function or account.

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Reporting & Analytics

Powerful Reporting Solutions

Easy to view and customize, our statements and reports cover all aspects of your Interactive Brokers account.

Flexible Client Billing

Use our CRM to implement flexible fee structures, automate fee administration and provide dynamic fee management.

Flexible Client Billing

Flexible Fee Structures

  • Invoice clients for services rendered using automatic billing, electronic invoicing or direct billing.
  • Fee structures for charging clients include percent of net liquidation value, blended fees, flat fees, percent of P&L, performance fee threshold or high-water marking.

Automated Fee Administration

  • Assign client fees to individual accounts or use client fee templates to apply fees across clients.
  • Charge client commissions to your master account or easily reimburse fees to client accounts.

Dynamic Fee Management

  • Set maximum invoicing amounts or percentage caps.
  • Meet your compliance obligations by notifying your clients of advisory fee details.
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Flexible Client Billing

Client Support

Advisors on the Interactive Brokers platform have access to a number of resources for efficiently managing their business.

Flexible Client Billing

Website and Branding Support

White Branding 

White brand statements, client registration and other informational materials with your own organization’s identity, including performance reports created by PortfolioAnalyst.

Client Sites for RIAs 

IBKR Advisor Client Sites provides a complimentary website with custom graphic design and modern functionality. We will work with RIAs to create a customized, professional business website.

Discover a World of Opportunities


Invest globally in stocks, options, futures, bonds, funds, ETFs and CFDs from a single unified platform. Fund your account in 10 currencies (HUF, EUR, USD, GBP, CZK, DKK, NOK, PLN, SEK, CHF) and trade assets denominated in 27 currencies. Access market data 24 hours a day and six days a week. Fund your account in multiple currencies and trade assets denominated in multiple currencies. Access market data 24 hours a day and six days a week.

150

Markets

33

Countries

10

Fundable Currencies*


Global Markets

*Available currencies vary by Interactive Brokers affiliate.

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A Broker You Can Trust

When placing your money with a broker, you need to make sure your broker is secure and can endure through good and bad times. Our strong capital position, conservative balance sheet and automated risk controls are designed to protect IBKR and our clients from large trading losses.

IBKR

Nasdaq Listed

$13.3B

Equity Capital*

74.6%

Privately Held*

$9.4B

Excess Regulatory Capital*

2.43M

Client Accounts*

1.91M

Daily Avg Revenue Trades*


IBKR Protection
IBKR Broker You Can Trust

*Interactive Brokers Group and its affiliates. For additional information view our Investors Relations - Earnings Release section.

Advisor Account Structure

Advisor Account Structure

Account Information

  • With our global financial advisor account structure, advisors can support clients from over 200 countries and territories with a single, integrated advisor master account.
  • Advisors who manage client accounts in excess of state registration minimums (generally 16 or more accounts and US $25 million in assets) must be registered under local regulatory law (e.g., Registered Investment Advisors (RIA) for US securities and Commodity Trading Advisors (CTA) for US commodities).
  • The account can be white branded with an advisor's corporate identity.
  • Advisor master account holders must be age 21 or older.
  • Professional Registered Investment Advisors can create multiple tier accounts by adding Advisor, Proprietary Trading Group Separate Trading Limit (“STL”) and Multiple Hedge Fund master accounts to their account structure. Each Advisor, Proprietary Trading Group STL and Multiple Hedge Fund master account on the second tier can add client/sub/hedge fund accounts as required. Individual and Joint account holders under an Advisor account structure can add authorized traders to become STL accounts.

Open a Registered Investment Advisor Account

Our Advisor accounts let Professional Registered Investment Advisors (RIAs) and Commodity Trading Advisors (CTAs) execute and allocate trades among multiple clients from a single order management interface.

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Disclosures

The projections or other information generated by PortfolioAnalyst® or Tax Loss Harvesting regarding the likelihood of various investment outcomes are hypothetical in nature, do not reflect actual investment results and are not guarantees of future results. Please note that results may vary with use of the tool over time.

The information provided here is not intended to serve as tax advice and should not be used by the recipient or any other taxpayer to avoid penalties under any federal, state, local, or other tax statutes or regulations. It is also important to acknowledge that this information cannot be relied upon to resolve any tax issues.