Progress Report 2024
The Progress Continues This is always one of my favourite posts of the year. It’s a chance to look at my financial progress, and hopefully this will inspire others to work on their finances too. You can see last year’s post here (and follow the chain back through time if you are interested -the first […]
Investing in a time of volatility
A couple of little price falls, and everyone loses their minds I am on holiday and neglecting RetireJapan, so of course stock markets around the world decide to melt down while I am away. I’m sure everyone knows the basics, but it is good to have frequent reminders hence this short post. Investments can go […]
Progress Report 2023
The Progress Continues It’s the blog post none of you have been waiting for 😉 This year once again I am publishing my personal financial progress report post. You can see last year’s post here (and follow the chain back through time if you are interested -the first was in 2017 or so). I find […]
I invest but I’m not an investor
You should probably invest too I applied for a credit card in March 2022. The reason I did so then is because I was still employed, but due to finish my contract at the end of the month. From April, I would not have a job and it would be hard if not impossible to […]
Progress Report 2022
The Progress Continues This year once again I am publishing my personal progress report post. You can see last year’s post here. I find it useful to go over my accounts and think about them, and hope this will help you see how you can invest over time here in Japan. We’re going to cover […]
The Easy Portfolio
Easy rules for accumulation and spending Last week I wrote about my portfolio, and how I discovered it isn’t fit for purpose. This week I’m going to write about what a super-easy portfolio might look like. We’ll also go into how you could use it to save for retirement and spend once you get there. […]
My Investment Allocation is All Wrong
Time for a rethink! Well, this is embarrassing. After fifteen years of investing and eight years of running RetireJapan, I have realised that some of my investments are not fit for purpose. Drat. How it started Until very recently I was pretty happy with my portfolio. We own a core of index funds, with a […]
Progress Report 2021
The Progress Continues This year once again we will combine all the progress report posts into one huge long report. I think they work better as one post. You can see last year’s post here (spoiler alert: this year’s is very similar). We’re going to cover the following areas in order: Lots to cover, so […]
Share your portfolio
Lots of ideas There was a really interesting thread on the Forum this week with the title share your portfolio. I was going to reply there but then I figured if I was going to do the work of writing up my portfolio I might as well get a blog post of out it 😉 […]
Progress Report 2020
The Progress Continues This year we will continue combining all the progress report posts into one huge long report. I think they work better as one big long post. You can see last year’s post here (spoiler alert: this year’s is almost identical). We’re going to cover the following areas in order: iDeCo Progress NISA […]