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@jaybee66 Rakuten All Country is 0.0561% (0.0391% after you get the points but who knows how long that will last) eMaxis Slim Worldwide Stocks (All Country) is 0.05775%

@saramae I don’t think there are many reasons not to. It seems similar to the eMaxis Slim one but very slightly cheaper.

@saramae ¥612 per year if you invest the full ¥3.6m. Pretty poor. The trouble with Rakuten is their point schemes only last as long as they need them to. I’m still quite bitter that they got rid of the SPU bonus for investing points. That was one of the main reasons I signed up with them over...

@christfollower1993 I wouldn’t say foreign bonds are out. A lot of people do invest in foreign bonds for the purpose of diversification. But I don’t think they’ll do quite what you initially thought they would do at 40%, which is provide predictability to your portfolio. I can confidently say...

@christfollower1993 Unhedged bonds are tied to the currency in which they were issued. I’ll give a simple example. US treasury bonds are priced in dollars. So if you buy a $1 treasury bond today for ¥150, then the yen rises to ¥100 to the dollar, the value of the bond in dollars will still be...

@christfollower1993 Those “Index Collection” funds look like good choices due to the low fees and simplicity. If you didn’t know, you can look these funds up on Japan Yahoo Finance and check charts of their past performance. It looks like the domestic equity one tracks TOPIX and the global...