RetireJapan

I haven't yet. US <-> AU was pretty much hassle free. at the end of the day, unless it's a managed fund, you the owner of the shares.. worst case scenario they could give you the stock certificate, and you give it to the new broker.. but I haven't had enough experience in Japan to know how they oper...

disclaimer: I'm a big index proponent. lets quickly look (imo) at the risks of individual shares. 1) company drops in value 2) financial crisis with an index, at least you can remove risk no 1.. it'll also give you the possibility to diversify across borders, and growth/defensive assets. With shares...

Same sentiment as the other posts. Organizations spend millions in predicting the market, yet the mostly fail vs the index. If you see worldwide shares index, you'll find that even though there have been numerous crashes in history it always recovered. the question is (how soon to do you need the mo...

Hi All. I'm looking at transferring a bunch of shares from a japanese broker to overseas. Did some googling around, and found this is not very commonly done in japan. has anyone attempted to do this, and if so, with who? I'd hate to have to sell/rebuy as there'd be capital gains to pay, for the brok...