RetireJapan

Just a note of warning. One of my Japanese friends was scammed recently. Apparently his stock in SBI Holdings was stolen and sold off. Not so sure of the details but he could not transfer his stock to his bank either. By coincidence, today a got a mysterious SNS message from SBI Securities requesti...

Open a spreadsheet

Put these column titles

Date of Statutory Retirement - Date of Receiving Pension - No. of 9 Week Blocks - Multiplier

Self Explanatory - Self Explanatory - =INT(DATEDIF(<Cell1>,<Cell2>,"d")/(7*9)) - =1.011^<Cell3>

tokorobam wrote: ↑Mon May 12, 2025 12:05 am As a side note, I also got an “Passport Card” this time as well in addition to the book. Though it is only useful for travel between the US, Canada, and Mexico (not Japan)

But how long for? Not for long, maybe

... And to add to my last post, when I called HMRC, they told me once again, they couldn't tell me the pension due, and to call the DWP number. And the DWP, after promising to put in writing how much pension I was able to claim, only sent a summary of my backdated NI contributions, which I can alre...

I really appreciate the discourse here on this topic. I think some of the tension is that as parents we will have to make recommendations to our children, that may not mesh with what they read in Japanese about the subject. I think it would be easier to encourage them to follow through with the dec...

Dollar Cost Average!

Use Google Translate on your Phone, and select Camera

That should help some...

1. **Allocation:** Should he split his investments between iDeCo (¥20,000) and NISA (¥40,000)? This would total in the year ¥60,000 x 12 = ¥720,000 Invested, whether exclusively NISA or iDeCo/NISA combination... If he does this, he'll have a tax advantage as I showed above of a Year-End Refund of N...

Deep Blue wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 2:11 pm

Tkydon wrote: ↑Thu May 01, 2025 1:10 pm

They give you benefits, which actually cost them nothing, but you value at the retail value.

This is patently untrue.

Which part?

They are a Dividend Payment in Kind.

They give you benefits, which actually cost them nothing, but you value at the retail value.

This is much less expensive for them than to pay you the equivalent cash dividend.

Win-Win?