Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips, coauthors of Investing the Templeton Way, will provide their analysis on John Templeton’s Buena Vista speech on the economic vices and virtues in upcoming posts. Please consider entering our contest on this topic for a chance to win $500. As we know, this behavior of utilizing debt to live beyond one’s [...]
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Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips on John Templeton’s Economic Vices and Virtues, Part 2
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Markets, News, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on March 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips on John Templeton’s Economic Vices and Virtues, Part 1
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets on February 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips, coauthors of Investing the Templeton Way, will provide their analysis on John Templeton’s Buena Vista speech on the economic vices and virtues in upcoming posts. Please consider entering our contest on this topic for a chance to win $500. One of the most interesting exercises we undertook after reviewing Sir John’s [...]
Link Roundup
Posted in Business, Markets, News, Stock Market, tagged Links, Sir John Templeton on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Time for yet another brief link roundup! First, we have a very precient article from Forbes.com that examines the current state of the market and the lessons we should all take away from recent events. It mentions the great Sir John Templeton interview from Wall Street Week that we’ve featured in the past here on What Would John [...]
Lauren Templeton on John Templeton and Diversification
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, Philosophy, Quotes, Stock Market, Stocks on September 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“Diversification should be the corner stone of your investment program. If you have your wealth in one company, unexpected troubles may cause a serious loss; but if you own the stocks of 12 companies in different industries, the one which turns out badly will probably be offset by some other which turns out better than [...]
Templeton on Diversification
Posted in Business, Investing, Markets, Money, Quotes, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on September 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Research shows that a stock portfolio with investments around the world is likely to yield, in the long run, higher return at a lower level of volatility than a simple, diversified, single nation portfolio. This is what we have always done, as the results of Templeton Growth Fund, Ltd. have shown. July 1994 If you [...]
Outperforming the Market
Posted in Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, Quotes, Stock Market, Stocks on August 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John Templeton consistently outperformed the stock market, but he realized the difficulty in doing it, as discussed in Spiritual Investments: Wall Street Wisdom from the Career of Sir John Templeton by Gary Moore: Outperforming the market is an ambitious goal and one that must be pursued carefully. The challenge to outperforming the market is not [...]
Traveling the Globe
Posted in Business, Investing, Markets, Philosophy, Wall Street on August 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In 1937, John Templeton and a friend journeyed across the globe, traveling to twenty-seven countries in seven months and with only a combined two hundred English pounds. As William Proctor narrates in The Templeton Touch, this experience gave Templeton a head start when he began his investment career when returning from the trip of a lifetime: [...]
A Year Later
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, News, Philosophy, Quotes, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on July 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday marked the one-year anniversary of the death of Sir John Templeton. What a year it has been and how we wish he was here to comment on these turbulent economic times. Some of the major economic events that have occurred since Sir John’s passing include: A housing crisis The fall of banking giants Lehman [...]
Gary Moore on John Templeton’s Values (Part 2)
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Philosophy, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In as series of two posts, Gary Moore reflects on the religious perspective John Templeton brought to the investing world and how it shaped his investing decisions. Similarly, Sir John utilized the Golden Rule as a guide to investing and life—he even wrote books about it. I can hear you protesting that the Golden Rule [...]
Gary Moore on John Templeton’s Values (Part 1)
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, Philosophy, Recession, Stock Market, Stocks on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In as series of two posts, Gary Moore reflects on the religious perspective John Templeton brought to the investing world and how it shaped his investing decisions. Sir John Templeton thought that belief was crucial to his success as a money manager, businessman, father, and so on. Thirty years ago, in its November 27, 1978 [...]
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