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Any tips and tricks to ramp up points? My monthly cc bill is over 150,000 yet over the past 2 years I have only managed to accumulate 6,000ish points By the way, this looks weird. If you get 150,000 monthly on your Rakuten CC you should get 1,500 points back a month, of 18,000 a year. I suggest you...

Any tips and tricks to ramp up points? My monthly cc bill is over 150,000 yet over the past 2 years I have only managed to accumulate 6,000ish points By the way, this looks weird. If you get 150,000 monthly on your Rakuten CC you should get 1,500 points back a month, of 18,000 a year. I suggest you...

Ah yes, I forgot about Rakuten Travel. There are also some good deals sometimes if you need to rent a car (and you will get +1x on Ichiba if you used Travel during the month).

I asked a Japanese friend about it and he said that a lot of overseas funds are hard to buy here, so better to look at overseas companies. He mentioned a few in Hong Kong and Singapore, and they seem to be somewhat open architecture, but they were very expensive in charges (like over 1% per year pl...

In 2019 I accumulated 75,000 points and this year I'm already at 65,000 (thanks to furusato nozei). Make sure to use your credit card for everything you can (especially big or recurring expenses), that will get you 1% back in points. Of course never, ever spend more than you can and carry your balan...

I am also heavily invested in Rakuten and it is very rewarding indeed. During Furusato Nozei I even reached the upper limit of points one could receive when using some multipliers. One advantage of Rakuten points is that they can also be used with Rakuten pay or Edy, making them money you can use vi...

Ok boomer.

Ymobile will let you keep using Softbank's network with the same performance, at a faction of the price. It's worth checking them out if you are satisfied with your network conditions.

Ask him about all the different fees you are paying each year (in % of what you have invested, including the funds fees, his own management fee and the one his company takes, plus probably a few others), and see how skillful he will be at evading your question... If you manage to get a number, plea...

thank you again for the comment. I am not sure if I understand why it is a bad investment? Honestly I dont understand why my money will increase over a long period of time either... what should I ask the agent? I am planing to meet with him next week.... I will loose some money if I up out of the p...