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I'm a private school teacher, so same limits as public servants, and rakuten sent me an email about the upcoming changes, all I had to do was login and click a button and they said my contributions would increase from December. It was, surprisingly, easy ... (fingers crossed) I got the same email a...

The actual yeild for each individual Y12,000 will be different, but the average is 17.90％ Thanks for that. I understood what each of the figures were, just not how the yield is calculated. I think I more or less have it now, though. I sometimes have a bit of a mental block when it comes to number-c...

Reading this made me curious so I had a look at my ideco performance, which I rarely do. I've been paying my 12,000 per month for about seven years now, and the site said: Market value (時価評価額): 1,860,423 円 Profit/loss (評価損益): +881,233 円 Cumulative total invested (投資累計額): 979,190 円 Investment yield (...

I suppose it's probably my own fault for not making sure my name is written exactly the same way everywhere. I don't usually use my middle name in most circumstances (in English or Japanese), but I do if it is required (or depending on the name entry format in the application or whatever). I guess I...

Also make sure to link the credit card beforehand just in case there's weird name matching problem. Taking this good advice, I just tried to register my new Rakuten credit card on my Rakuten Shoken account, and, to my dismay, there is indeed a "weird name matching problem." :cry: The prob...

^^^Many thanks Nanaya--I *think* I understand now...

Sorry to slightly divert the thread, but I have a related question. Having read this thread I applied for (and received very quickly!) a Rakuten credit card to make my monthly Rakuten tsumetate payments. I currently have 300,000 yen cash in my Rakuten Shoken account to cover the payments for April, ...

RetireJapan wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:38 am Yes, Rakuten CC only to invest with Rakuten Securities.

Thanks for the reply.
I thought as much. I guess I had better apply for one then...

Please excuse the "dummy" question, but am I right in my understanding that it has to be a Rakuten credit card, not just any credit card?

Perfect! Thanks so much Butterball. (Thanks also to Adamu for his response.) As is common with Rakuten & Japanese websites in general, there are multiple paths to get there and all of them are non-obvious. Yeah, I'm no expert on website design, but it seems they could do better. It feels like go...