RetireJapan

Thanks for the replies! I have no plans to return to live in the UK, I'll be staying in Japan forever (ずっと :lol: ）,and since I'm a newbie with zero financial experience who wishes to keep things simple it looks like the best thing to do would be to bring the majority back to Japan to add to my inves...

Hi, nearly finished the Takegawa Minako book on the ideco, in the meantime I have a more general (newbie) question: I have some money in england (about 15,000GBP) that I'm wondering what is best to do with. I'd like to keep a 1,000 or so in the current account for emergencies/ as spending money when...

thanks for the response username - haha, wasn't really expecting anyone to notice that joke - clearly I underestimated this forum! Yes, having posted, it occured to me that probably the answer is a bit more reading. I already mentioned that J book to my wife, her response was "I don't want to r...

Hi, I'm currently looking into the ideco with my wife (she's Japanese, I'm from England but fairly fluent/literate), one obstacle we've come up against is that since neither of us know anything about this kind of finance (to be honest until a few weeks ago I thought anything involving stocks, shares...