GERMANS: Be aware! Don't buy any US ETFs when you pay taxes in Germany. There is pretty heavy penalty tax on ETFs. Depends on the difference of the price on the first day of trading of the year and on the last. If unlucky you can pay 50% tax on your gains. I did just this year pay 45% and I won't be getting it back. Read thru this first: https://www.justetf.com/de-en/news/etf/steuereinfach-in-etfs...

You can buy Vanguard via their ETF funds using any broker. I do.

Just beware of taxes.

Rules are a bit different. I'm in the UK and you need £100,000 to go direct with Vanguard and thus you need to go with a broeker.

https://www.charles-stanley-direct.co.uk/ is a good shout, but there may be better depending on how you'd like to invest.

I use Nutmeg, had a return of 7% over two years, and I've also just opened an account with MoneyFarm.

I'm using DEGIRO (based in the NL), seems to be OK, decent website and low fees. They have this weird thing about loaning out your shares in the regular accounts; I couldn't quite get the risk I'd be exposed to in that case, so I went with a Custody account.

I get vanguard in the Uk via HL, some funds are on there and the fees are not too bad for the most part.

Nutmeg might be worth looking at. I've used it for my pension pot since I left my perm job and went contracting/freelance.

That probably depends a lot on which country you live in.

I user interactive brokers and just buy VOO (vanguard S&P500 etf)