Interactive Brokers Rated #1 Online Broker by Barron's for the Fourth Year in a Row
March 12 2015 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: IBKR) was awarded
top honors in Barron's 20th annual ranking of Best Online Brokers,
rated number one for the fourth year in a row.
In the 2015 review, Barron's compared 18 online brokers,
evaluating participants from the viewpoint of the wealthy, active
trader across eight categories of service including Trading
Technology, Usability, Mobile, Range of Offerings, Research
Amenities, Portfolio Analysis & Reports, Customer Service,
Education & Security, and Costs.
IB ranked above all of the competition for a fourth consecutive
year. According to Barron’s, “we believe [Interactive Brokers] is
an appropriate brokerage experience for intermediate to advanced
investors and traders who want to stay engaged in the markets.”
Interactive Brokers was also rated Low Cost Broker by Barron’s for
the 11th year in a row. “Low costs are a key component of trading,
and Interactive’s price-improvement statistics are impressive,”
notes Barron’s. IB “boasts the lowest margin fees” among brokers
included in this year’s survey.
In addition to taking the number one spot overall this year, IB
received top marks in a number of sub-categories, including Best
for Options Traders, Best for Frequent Traders and Best for
International Traders by Barron's.
Thomas Peterffy, chairman, founder and CEO of Interactive
Brokers Group, is pleased with the results of this year's review.
"We continue to focus on building robust trading technology," said
Peterffy. "IB is committed to providing clients superior execution
quality, breadth of product offering and access to global markets
at the lowest possible cost."
For more information about IB's award-winning trading platform,
please visit interactivebrokers.com.
About Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.:
Interactive Brokers Group, Inc., together with its subsidiaries,
is an automated global electronic broker that specializes in
catering to financial professionals by offering state-of-the-art
trading technology, superior execution capabilities, worldwide
electronic access, and sophisticated risk management tools at
exceptionally low costs. The brokerage trading platform utilizes
the same innovative technology as the Company's market making
business, which executes and processes trades in securities,
futures and foreign exchange instruments on more than 100
electronic exchanges and trading venues around the world. As a
market maker, we provide liquidity at these marketplaces and, as a
broker, we provide professional traders and investors with
electronic access to stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds and
mutual funds from a single IB Universal AccountSM. Employing
proprietary software on a global communications network,
Interactive Brokers Group continuously integrates its software with
a growing number of exchanges and trading venues into one
automatically functioning, computerized platform that requires
minimal human intervention.
Media:Interactive Brokers Group, Inc.Caitlin Duffy,
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