RetireJapan

captainspoke wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 10:00 am And AnkiDude, if you have 30-35 years, my suggestion would be to skip bonds altogether. Maybe when you're 55 or so?

I'm not sure, I don't think this fits well in my risk planning, probably. I'll give it a bit more thoughts though.

70/30 stock/bond split is an old standard. It can expose you to the inherent volatility of stocks and it does not include precious metals and commodities which might be very useful if you believe we are headed for inflation. That's a good point, but I'm personally not too convinced on precious meta...

hmm this looks interesting since I was thinking about investing some of my EU capital (outside of Japan) into EU markets, this might help me do that without having to remit the funds into Japan first. However, I'm a bit unsure about the reliability of this service for longer-term/larger-capital inve...

Moneymatters wrote: ↑Thu Jan 28, 2021 4:27 am Did your friend share any specifics?

Unfortunately I have no specifics, I didn't dig deeper into what they meant, they just said they weren't happy with the direction the service had gone. Might be UI/features available related though, and not strictly the service itself.

Welcome to the forum! In general it is better to break posts up so you just have one question per post. If you write a PhD thesis with multiple questions it can put people off replying, whereas they might have replied to each of the single question posts ;) Yeah, I agree. I guess I just wanted to g...

Hey folks, I've been lurking for a bit and I have some fundamentals on how this whole investments/economy thing works in general, but I feel like I'm totally lost when it comes to the actual practical side of things. I've been in Japan for a bit over a year and I'm planning to stay here for good so ...