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sure, I'm pretty free at the moment (uni summer vacation), lunchtimes evenings weekends all probably work for me (depending on the day), do you have a suggestion for a time and venue??

hey, bit late but I'm in Okinawa, live in Ginowan

If you're happy with what's in your NISA or iDeCo, why not just buy more of the same? that sounds completely sensible, yes I think that is what I will do! So, um, back to very very newbie questions: how do I go about doing that? (on the rakuten site, it seems like I can keep things simpler by doing...

Ok, finally got around to gooooogling mutual funds and ETFs.... From what I understand (which isn't much....): Mutual funds are mostly active (and therefore fees are higher), trade once a day, and have a minimum investment but you don't have to buy whole shares ETFs are mostly passive (and therefore...

ok thanks! will do a bit of research on those and get back to you!

thanks for the reply, just looked and yes that is exactly what I have

Hi again, had a bit of a break in working on financial stuff due to a couple of life complications that came up (all sorted now, and nothing disasterous, mostly just hassle....) , but we did manage to get our nisa arrangements squared away (err, nearly....there's a complication involving my name in ...

thanks for the pointers, much appreciated, we added an emerging markets fund and put the numbers in, part one (ideco) is now complete! Coming up soon: parts 2 (nisa) and 3 (normal investment account for any extra we have), phew this is pretty tiring, much gratitude for this site, might never have ma...

Hi all! rakuten ideco account details finally came in the post, now sat with the wonderwife trying to figure our allocations. Basically since we know nearly nothing we're trying to keep it simple, whist taking into account what little we do know. So, this is what we have in mind: kabu 70% saiken 30%...

ok thanks, will look into all of that!