RetireJapan

Hi guys, I need your advice, I opened an IKBR acc and want to deposit some funds to my acc. The only option to deposit fund for JPY is using bank wire transfer and I was thinking that's too much of a hassle. I look around and see that people have been using their USD Wise account to do direct ICH tr...

Hi all, I have been investing through iDeCo for about 2 years since I became a full-time employee at my current company. However, I got transfer by my company to Singapore and will move out there in the next couple months. What will happen to my iDeCo investment? will it freeze and I can collect it ...

Hi all, I need some advice on where to store my emergency fund. I have 6 months living cost worth of emergency fund, currently stored in 2 separate bank accounts (one in jpy, one in usd). I know the definition of emergency fund is for emergency use that you can take right away, but I feel like such ...

Thanks everyone for the replies! yeah, I think I'm gonna keep depositing to my designated bank account for emergency fund! The reason that I'm asking this question is because I came up reading about this vanguard article and recommendation for emergency fund: https://investor.vanguard.com/emergency-...

Hi Ben and everyone, I wanna ask about an emergency fund. I have been saving my emergency fund in my saving account, but it got me wondering whether I should keep it there or purchase some money market fund. So my question to everyone is, do you save your emergency fund in your normal saving account...

Dear All, I wanna ask your opinion, I have started investing from last month in tsumitate NISA. I want to diversify my account in bonds and stocks account, but I couldn't find funds that use 100% bonds. The closest I've got is DCニッセイワールドセレクトファンド(安定型), but this still has a small percentage of index s...