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adamu wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2019 11:01 am

MandF wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2019 6:15 am after some prodding

Who did you prod? Your financial adviser? It sounds like they told you that actually their advice wasn't very good after all. Maybe you should question the rest of their advice too.

Hmm you may onto something there

adamu wrote: ↑Fri May 24, 2019 10:53 am Apologies in advance for responding to probably the least significant point of your post.

Full of useful info so no need to apologize at all
Thank you very much.

Thanks Ben.
Any recommended broker ?
I saw you seemed to like Monex, SBI and Rakuten. In a nutshell what would be the difference between those ?

Sorry for the belated reply.
KyushuWoozy got it right, after some prodding, a company such as ShiftEnergy was offering investment plan.
Only problem is that price are steadily declining and positive return is (very) far to be guaranteed.

Hey all, EU citizen, Permanent Resident here. Been living in Japan for more than 20 years and have no banking, investment or taxes in my home country. I have been with financial advisors since 2008, I was young, innocent and was not allowed by my job to have a broker account / trade at the time. I m...

I will post more info as I get them, seems it is not very common yet (?)

Hello all,
Recently my financial advisor told me about a "new" type of investment : Green Energy (mostly solar) that you can sell back to the big electricity providers using the Feed-In tariff (FIT) program.

Anyone has experience with that ?