RetireJapan

I use the eMAXIS Slim one you mentioned. You might find this interesting: https://www.retirejapan.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=38854#p38854 This was really interesting. Thank you. I think that I would much rather have less volatility than potential high returns over the long term once I am retired. Th...

I have opened my Interactive Brokers (IB) account in Japan and am looking to invest in ETF's/Indexes. I am a British citizen I think the Japanese online brokers (SBI/Rakuten/Monex) are better for that. https://retirewiki.jp/wiki/Japanese_global_index_funds For the core index holdings, the low cost ...

I have opened my Interactive Brokers (IB) account in Japan and am looking to invest in ETF's/Indexes. I am a British citizen I think the Japanese online brokers (SBI/Rakuten/Monex) are better for that. https://retirewiki.jp/wiki/Japanese_global_index_funds For the core index holdings, the low cost ...

I don't have experience with IB but Firstrade lets its international customers buy pretty much any ETF you like (even the new Vanguard factor ETFs and active ETFs which are not available yet in Japan) so it might be worthwhile to check out Firstrade if IB Japan has some kind of legal restrictions. W...

oops, the Japanese bonds should not have been listed twice there. The allocation was 20% Japan stocks, 15% US stocks, 8% developed market stocks, 2% emerging market stocks, 22% Japanese bonds, 16% developed market bonds, 5% emerging market bonds, 6% Japanese REIT, 2% developed market REIT, and 4% go...

It suggests I rebalance for more Japanese and Emerging Market stocks too. But as I am going to be drawing my pension from next year, I am thinking that overweighting Japanese stocks might not be such a bad thing since it'll lower the portfolio's exchange rate risk ? When I backtested the 'balanced' ...

I'm a newbie too... but as I understand it, if you buy in dollars (converted from yen either using the broker's real time conversion section - at zero yen commission in many cases - or transferred to the broker from your back in dollars) you control the exchange rate at which you buy the stocks, whe...

I've just discovered that Monex has something that neither Rakuten or SBI have. Their Monex Vision protfolio optimization app is totally amazing. It's like myindex.jp on steroids. It's just a shame that I'd already sent off the paperwork for iDeCo and Nisa accounts to Rakuten before I discoverd that...

I'm thinking of selling my Vanguard Total International Bond Index Fund ETF (ER 0.07%) and buying either the ' ＮＥＸＴ ＦＵＮＤＳ 外国債券・ＦＴＳＥ世界国債インデックス（除く日本・為替ヘッジあり）連動型上場投信' etf (ER 0.132%) or the the 'ｅＭＡＸＩＳ Ｓｌｉｍ 先進国債券インデックス' fund (ER 0.17%) because the Vanguard ETF is usd hedged, whereas the NEXT FUNDS ETF ...

I looked again at the Rakuten site, and it seems that as of 4 December 2023, they did away with charging a fee for "real time currency conversion" between usd and yen. SBI Securities soon followed suit by announcing that as a part of their Zero Kakumei programme they too will no longer cha...