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As we’ve highlighted in the last several weeks, one of John Templeton’s most successful investing strategies was to buy low and sell high. In Spiritual Investments: Wall Street Wisdom from the Career of Sir John Templeton, Gary Moore highlights this strategy of maximum pessimism: Every investor knows to buy low. But in actual practice, this [...]

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A few weeks ago, several bloggers were buzzing about John Templeton’s investment strategy of buying low and selling high: http://www.mebanefaber.com/2009/03/08/is-it-time-to-do-a-templeton/ http://www.dailymarkets.com/stocks/2009/03/11/phoenix-strategy-update/ http://www.kiplinger.com/magazine/archives/2009/04/discovering_value.html While we won’t endorse or comment on specific investments, it does appear to be an opportune time to learn more about Templeton’s investing strategy.

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To better understand the psychology of our current economic times, especially in regard to the perspective of John Templeton, we posed the following question to three leading psychologists: One of Sir John Templeton’s most famous quotes is “Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria. The time [...]

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We asked a few of Sir John’s family members and friends to share their perspectives on Sir John’s rule of “Buy Low, Sell High.” Gary Moore, author of Faithful Finances and founder of Gary Moore and Company weighs in: One of the terribly important things to remember about Sir John’s seemingly optimistic opinion that stocks always [...]

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We asked a few of Sir John’s family members and friends to share their perspectives on Sir John’s rule of “Buy Low, Sell High.” Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips, coauthors of Investing the Templeton Way, provide a modern look at Sir John’s investment rule: Investors must always remember that stocks become a bargain when others [...]

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Link Roundup

We aren’t the only ones looking to John Templeton for wisdom and perspective lately. Here’s a look at some other great articles that we’ve gathered from near and far: The American Spectator “What Would Sir John Say?” iStockAnalyst “John Templeton’s Plan for Surviving the Great Recession” The Motley Fool “3 Lessons from an Investing Master” Scotland on [...]

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In February 1993, John Templeton contributed an article, “16 Rules for Investment Success (and for your family, house, tuition, retirement . . . )” in World Monitor. At the time this article was published, there were different world issues and economic challenges facing the country, but Templeton’s advice remains relevant today. In the last rule [...]

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