RetireJapan

Thanks for your reply. Yeah, I'll just leave it in taxable, as it's only 6 man.

A purchase I made into a certain popular fund about a month ago is listed in my taxable account, rather than NISA. I expect I forgot to tick the NISA box. As tax hasn't come into play yet, can I ask the broker to shift it over to NISA?

i appreciate the replies. As I will probably only be in my current job one more year it is probably the proverbial blessing in disguise. Still, I was hoping to head off any potential problems with bank account name not matching brokerage name by having the money directly deducted.

My employer has kindly filled in the iDeCo application form, but also told me they "can't" do deductions from my salary. Has anyone else had this experience? Given that the government mandates it as one of the ways to contribute to iDeCo, is my employer even allowed to refuse to make the d...

When the contribution limits go up in December, will it be a simple matter to raise your contributions if you wish to, or will it be a bureaucratic pain? Anyone have any info on this?

Or I may just demand that they repay me in cash, since they were happy enough to accept it from me

Thanks for that heads-up, Ben. I may have to open a Shinsei Bank account just so I can withdraw the funds.

I actually started my Nisa "journey" intending to go with Rakuten. During the application process a message appeared saying there was an irregularity, but its nature was not revealed. Tried again, same thing happened. Unhelpful. At which point, I decided to try SBI instead. The fact that, ...

I recently opened a Nisa with SBI, so am wondering whether to get an Olive card for the "gazillions of points". However, once they've roped in enough people they'll likely do the old bait and switch and drastically cut the points allocation. On the middle name issue, I ran into the same pr...

Poxed?