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adamu wrote: ↑Fri Apr 29, 2022 11:44 am What are you going to do if the market doubles by the end of the year, and you were waiting to see? Then you'll have missed out, and also be worried it's peaked out and be waiting for it to drop again.

mikele3 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:20 am

TBS wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:59 am Blue line is the price of ｅＭＡＸＩＳ Ｓｌｉｍ 全世界株式（オール・カントリ)）
Orange line is the price including distributions reinvestments. ｅＭＡＸＩＳ Ｓｌｉｍ 全世界株式（オール・カントリー） doesn't pay out distributions, so this line is invisible below the blue line.
Brown line is the average price of other mutual funds in a similar category. Rakuten's site might explain somewhere exactly what funds.
Green line is the total amount of money invested in ｅＭＡＸＩＳ Ｓｌｉｍ 全世界株式（オール・カントリー）. It increases as more investments come in over time, and fluctuates with the fund price.

None of the lines will look exactly similar to other US-denominated indices or funds. The blue line follows the MSCI all world index, yen denominated.

Thank you for the clarifications! Do I understand correctly that eMAXISslim is actually outperforming all other similar mutual funds? (Blue line being much better looking than the Brown line?)

TBS wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 1:07 pm

mikele3 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 28, 2022 10:20 am

TBS wrote: ↑Wed Apr 27, 2022 9:59 am Blue line is the price of ｅＭＡＸＩＳ Ｓｌｉｍ 全世界株式（オール・カントリ)）
Orange line is the price including distributions reinvestments. ｅＭＡＸＩＳ Ｓｌｉｍ 全世界株式（オール・カントリー） doesn't pay out distributions, so this line is invisible below the blue line.
Brown line is the average price of other mutual funds in a similar category. Rakuten's site might explain somewhere exactly what funds.
Green line is the total amount of money invested in ｅＭＡＸＩＳ Ｓｌｉｍ 全世界株式（オール・カントリー）. It increases as more investments come in over time, and fluctuates with the fund price.

None of the lines will look exactly similar to other US-denominated indices or funds. The blue line follows the MSCI all world index, yen denominated.

Thank you for the clarifications! Do I understand correctly that eMAXISslim is actually outperforming all other similar mutual funds? (Blue line being much better looking than the Brown line?)

eMAXIS Slim All Country is in Rakuten's 先進国・新興国株式（広域）-為替ヘッジ無し mutual fund category, i.e. wide area (developed + emerging nations) stocks, no currency hedge. The brown line is some sort of average of all funds in that category (there are currently 76).

I wouldn't read too much into the blue line being above the brown line currently. The funds in that category don't all cover the same countries, and they have different management costs and tax efficiencies. If you look at the eMAXIS Slim All Country graph full history, there are long times where the brown line was above the blue line as well.

What matters most is the fundamentals of eMAXIS Slim All Country are good. It is passive, highly diverse (worldwide stocks), low management costs and good tax efficiency. It is among the best in these respects among other funds in that category, which is why it is popular on here.

mikele3 wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 5:26 am understood, thank you for explaining a bit more about ｅＭＡＸＩＳ Ｓｌｉｍ 全世界株式（オール・カントリ)）

I am not shopping around for other index funds or other stock investments...
even though I still like to play games with money, I like, very much, the idea of a single, no brainer, security destination for my "savings".

I guess that by sticking around here I'll find out if another index fund will replace the eMAXI slim all country as a people's favorite.

Haystack wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 5:59 am Rakuten is deigned to subtly push you towards their offerings, which often include high fees. Ignore the shiny object of the week, and stay with total market, low cost funds.