RetireJapan

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 ?

Could you provide some more details? Are you talking about some kind of fund? Or buying solar panels yourself?

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

MandF wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2019 7:22 am Recently my financial advisor told me

I think when it comes to investing, you should stick to the classics for the bulk of your investments:

1. Broad-market low-cost index funds
2. Broad-market low-cost government bond funds

Which you then place into tax-advantaged (iDeCo, NISA) accounts first, and then taxable (tokutei kouza) accounts.

After that if you have play money left over, then you can play with green energy, cryptocurrency, snake oil, etc.

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.

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.

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