Lower costs, global market access, and efficient execution contributed to stronger client outcomes.
Interactive Brokers, an automated global electronic broker, today announced that its clients outperformed the S&P 500 Index in 2025, reflecting the benefits of cost efficiency, execution quality, and broad access to global markets. In 2025, Interactive Brokers’ individual clients achieved an average return of 19.20%, compared with the 17.9% return of the S&P 500 Index. During the same period, Interactive Brokers’ hedge fund clients achieved an average return of 28.91%, outperforming the index by approximately 11 percentage points.
These results demonstrate how Interactive Brokers helps enhance client returns across the investment lifecycle. Global market access enables clients to allocate capital across various regions and asset classes, while lower trading and financing costs, along with efficient execution, help IBKR investors retain more of their returns over time.
“Investment returns are not just about picking the right trades. They are influenced by the costs you pay, the prices you get, and how efficiently your capital is put to work,” said Thomas Peterffy, Founder and Chairman of Interactive Brokers. “When investors pay less in fees and trade with efficient execution, those advantages add up and compound over time. All of this is more evidence that the best-informed investors choose Interactive Brokers.”
How Interactive Brokers Helped Support Client Success in 2025:
- Interest on uninvested cash
IBKR clients can earn interest of up to USD 3.14% on uninvested cash balances, helping capital remain productive even when not fully invested. - Low margin and financing costs
IBKR clients benefit from margin rates as low as USD 4.14%, which is up to 55% lower than industry averages, improving capital efficiency over time. - Global market access
IBKR clients can trade stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds, and funds across 160+ global markets from a single, integrated platform. - Professional-grade execution and tools
IBKR clients have access to advanced order types, smart routing, and institutional-quality trading tools that support efficient execution, transparency, and disciplined risk management.
IBKR is Nasdaq-listed, a member of the S&P 500, and serves more than 4 million clients worldwide, with over $750 billion in client assets.
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