Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips, coauthors of Investing the Templeton Way, share their analysis of John Templeton’s advice for assessing one’s investing success. This is the second post on this topic; to read the first post, click here. The time to reflect on your own investing methods is when you are most successful, not when [...]
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Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips: John Templeton’s Advice for Self Assessment, Part 1
Posted in Business, Investing, Markets, Money, Philosophy, Quotes, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on April 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips on John Templeton’s Economic Vices and Virtues, Part 4
Posted in Business, Crisis, Economy, Money on March 9, 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. Finally, the U.S. economy also ranks high on Sir John’s virtue of [...]
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips on John Templeton’s Economic Vices and Virtues, Part 3
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Money, Philosophy on March 4, 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. Despite these clear examples of economic vices, and the demonstrable role that [...]
John Templeton and the Virtue of Thrift
Posted in Finance, Money, Philosophy, Templeton Plan, Thrift on January 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As many of us begin the new year with resolutions to save more of our resources, throughout January we will highlight John Templeton’s relationship with thrift. Last year, Templeton Press launched Bring Back Thrift Week, a campaign designed to restore the week of January 17 through 23 as National Thrift Week, once a prominent celebration of thrift. [...]
Economic Vice #2: Greed
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Investing, Money, Philanthropy, Quotes on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we’ll continue exploring John Templeton’s thoughts on spirituality and business with another excerpt from his speech at Buena Vista College entitled “The Religious Foundation of Liberty and Enterprise.” In this excerpt, we’ll look at the second of five economic vices he discusses in the speech. A related economic vice is greed. Because of greed, the modern [...]
Sir John M. Templeton Fellowships Essay Contest
Posted in Competition, Economy, Money, Philosophy on October 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you are a junior faculty member or a student, you may be interested in the 2010 Sir John M. Templeton Fellowships Essay Contest. This contest challenges untenured junior faculty under the age of thirty five and students to submit essays responding to the following: Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget the [...]
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 [...]
Investing Yourself in Your Work
Posted in Business, Economy, Finance, Money, Philosophy, Templeton Plan, Thrift on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We continue our exploration of John Templeton’s twenty-one steps detailed in The Templeton Plan by reviewing Step 7: Investing Yourself in Your Work. As the summer vacation season winds down and we all begin to refocus on putting in a good day’s work, Templeton’s advice about work and how to be successful may come in [...]
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 [...]
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