RetireJapan

captainspoke wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:50 am How about this: https://www.reddit.com/r/JapanFinance/c ... _mortgage/

Excellent read! Thank you!

I am glad I asked, even though I do not understand most of the explanation of how the financial system works.

I'll get it eventually.

Yesterday NHK gave a simpler summary of the effect of this policy change.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news ... index.html

Anybody undertands what effect will the BOJ ending negative rate policy, yield curve control have on current mortgages interest rates?

Thank you!
I will bookmark your post along with this article I saved a while back:
https://www.retirejapan.com/blog/guest- ... n-in-2023/

I am very interested in getting solar panels, but I still have contractor's fatigue and disillusion.

adamu wrote: ↑Sun Feb 04, 2024 3:02 am Here's a good sarcastic website
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/

https://bitcoinorshit.com/

The first year I bought into NISA I bought at the very beginning of the year, all at once, it went down immediately after, I regretted the 10% opportunity loss it for the whole year :D (I do not really care now) The following year, I waited for a good price. I ended up buying at the end of the year ...

After many many years wondering, inquiring, searching the web about how one would go about saving for retirement, I randomly found the RetireJapan blog and learned about NISA and iDeco, which led me to learn about Rakuten Securities, meanwhile I learned what index funds were and eventually, with the...

To a 14yo I would give a book about investing in oneself, not the markets. I am too far from teenagers’s reality to suggest something sensible, but something that highlights the importance of developing skills, confidence and health would serve anybody much better at that age than worrying on what t...

Ignore. ... but plan for a time to do the update.

I am a bit on the reckless side, I would have updated already ... it mentions new feature!

adamu wrote: ↑Wed Nov 08, 2023 1:35 am As always, it's on the wiki
https://retirewiki.jp/wiki/NISA#New_NISA_from_2024

I have been to the wiki quite a few times recently, but I missed to check the entry on NISA; that is great, thanks Adamu.