RetireJapan

This might not be the right thread for this, and if the information has been shared elsewhere I am truly sorry for asking this again (and would be grateful for a link), but does anyone know how the 新NISA will treat dividends? What I mean is if I buy an ETF through it, and that ETF pays me a dividend...

Thank you for that, very useful!

Come on people, let’s not be harsh here. Whether the comment makes sense to you or not is irrelevant; what I suspect is OP does not foresee having any spare money to put into the account this year, in which case they see the efforts spent opening the account as wasted. But as was pointed out, openin...

RetireJapan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 27, 2023 6:08 am anything being restricted to things the Japanese government has decided are reasonable investments, so no leveraged funds, etc.

Do we have a list for those “reasonable investments”? Would American ETFs be included, for example?

Glad to hear things fixed themselves. Does it show the fund being bought in December and January at different prices, or is it one bulk purchase?

Thank you for the explanation! Would you happen to remember the name of that Japanese investing book you mentioned?

@sutebayashi

So if I understand this correctly, you reckon an overwhelming majority of people holding the developed countries excluding Japan fund are already holding other Japanese-exposed positions?

I don’t think you are dumb Quark, I found myself thinking the same question yesterday. Why doesn’t Rakuten have the standard charts tracking the unit price for the mutual funds instead of the percentage change in them? If anyone knows how to display those, I would be very grateful and would offer th...

adamu wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 10:23 pm CAM wrote a new article about Inheritance Tax

Thank you for this, it was very informative. I am always shocked at how illogical and unintuitively arbitrary tax law is, especially in Japan.

TokyoBoglehead wrote: ↑Mon Jan 23, 2023 2:43 pm
No. There will be no tax-free account for minors. The FSA tried for it, but were shot down by lawmakers.

This is the last year. I strongly suggest opening it.

Understood, thanks you. Shame though, I think it was a fantastic scheme for future-proofing your children’s retirement.