Ishiyama serves green tea and autumn chestnut biscuits. She has been telling me about her investment history since around 2000 - the time, not coincidentally, when the Bank of Japan first pushed interest rates down to within a hair's breadth of zero. Largely without the knowledge of her husband, Ishiyama began investing the couple's money, mainly in lots of around $50,000. And didn't stop. Each fund in which she entrusted their retirement nest egg - or toranoko, "tiger's cub", in Japanese - has a more elaborate name than the last. As she lists each one she invariably adds as a suffix the words nantoka nantoka - "something or other" or "thingamajig". It is not altogether reassuring.
基金名稱一個比一個複雜