Recent content by mikew

Hi Saluki I think this may be matter of perspective. You are right that the schwab master accounts on the sheet you posted use the swift codes when you send money by international wire. However, if you live in one of the countries where schwab maintains one of these accounts, you can send the...

Actually Schwab's wire service for sending money in isn't an international wire. I send yen to schwab's account at Citibank in Tokyo and they just switch the money internally. I don't think I have been charged a fee unless it was a sneaky one. Also, ladefina are you dealing with domestic...

The timing is probably because Abe left for the US today.

Indirectly using Foreign Bonds and Other - Indirectly using Foreign Stocks (ETFs)

If you or your husband is tall, I would bring bicycles especially if his company is paying. Also there is an IKEA in Tokyo now. ;D

www.ishares.net iShares € Corporate Bond iShares € Government Bond 1-3 iShares € Government Bond 3-5 iShares € Government Bond 7-10 iShares € Government Bond 15-30 iShares € Inflation Linked Bond iShares £ Corporate Bond iShares £ Index-Linked Gilts iShares FTSE UK All Stocks Gilt

This article talks about many of the points above. http://www.morganstanley.com/views/gef/index.html#anchor4447

Longest expansion since WWII is relative. The GPD has only growing by less than 2%. The economy is still weak. The last time it looked like the economy was improving, the BOJ raised rates too early. That sent the economy into a tailspin. One other thing is the BOJ’s independence is not the same...

Re: List of countries offering retirement visas? In asia, I have heard the following have retirement visas. Malaysia (my second home program) Philippines Indonesia Australia Thailand but the rules seem to be in flux Mike

I came in from the cold a couple of years ago. I live overseas and hadn't filed for 15 years. The accountant suggested filing one year and if the IRS wanted more, they would come back to me. It worked out OK. Being a small fish they didn't seem to care. I am not giving advice on what to do, just...

Sorry but Keiko probably isn't Japanese. The site is probably fake :'( The Japanese on the front page looks computer generated.

For a base income portfolio Ben Stein recommended Dividend Stocks 20% Reits 20% Bonds 30% Inflation indexed bonds 30% From Yes you can be a successfull income investor

Here is Swenson's portfolio with annualized returns Fund Allocation 1yr 3yr 5yr Vanguard Inflation-Protected Securities 15% -1.63 3.57 6.85 Vanguard REIT Index 20% 19.23 25.60 18.93 Vanguard Short-Term Treasury Index 15% 1.57 1.35 3.57...

Hi Dasinsin There are many ways to do this. If you want, you could split developed international. Living in Asia you may want to overweight Asia compared to Europe. Also, I am not sure what books you have read but American books are written for Americans and may overweight American investments...

We are in Japan. As far as I know both of us have to pay the new emeror taxes on world wide investments after America takes its share. So we are trying to minimize all taxes. When we FIRE, we are thinking of living in a low tax country for a couple of years before returning to the states...