In recent weeks, the stock market has been more volatile than in previous months, due to a feared European debt crisis, mixed job reports, and other factors. Today, we finish posting John Templeton’s September 21, 1948, letter in which he focuses on the silver lining of a down market. If the market continues to decline the [...]
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The Templeton Letters: The Upside of a Down Market, Part 2
Posted in Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Stock Market, Stocks, Templeton Letters, Wall Street on June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Templeton Letters: The Upside of a Down Market, Part 1
Posted in Economy, Finance, Investing, Markets, Money, Stock Market, Wall Street on June 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In recent weeks, the stock market has been more volatile than in previous months, due to a feared European debt crisis, mixed job reports, and other factors. Though the trend of stock-market losses can send many investors into a tailspin, John Templeton’s September 21, 1948, letter describes a silver lining in a down market. The [...]
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips on Planned Investment, Part 1
Posted in Finance, Investing, Philosophy, Stock Market, Stocks, Templeton Letters on May 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips, coauthors of Investing the Templeton Way, share their analysis of John Templeton’s 1945 letter on planned investment. In John Templeton’s 1945 letter to investors titled “Planned Investment,” he recommends gradually shifting your investment portfolio from stocks into bonds when the stock market rises and then subsequently back from bonds into [...]
$100 for 100 Words: Your Favorite Investment Rule
Posted in Finance, Investing, Money, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on May 4, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Do you want a chance to win $100? Comment on this post by May 31 with your 100-word (or less) response to the following question: Which of John Templeton’s 16 Rules for Investment Success is your favorite and why? In a previous post, we highlighted these rules for investment success, written for the World Monitor in 1993. The [...]
The Templeton Letters: Investment Success
Posted in Finance, Investing, Stock Market, Stocks, Templeton Letters, Wall Street on April 29, 2010 | 1 Comment »
In closing his letter about Planned Investment in 1945, John Templeton remarked that “investment planning may cause the invested funds to double.” Rather than advocating for a haphazard, short-term, shoot-from-the-hip mentality toward investing, Templeton advocates patience and perseverance. So how does one create an investment plan in today’s market? In a 1993 article in World Monitor, [...]
The Templeton Letters: The Value of Investment Planning
Posted in Finance, Investing, Money, Stock Market, Stocks, Templeton Letters on April 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In a 1945 letter to investors, John Templeton discusses the importance of planned investment. In this section of the letter, he details how one can balance his or her investments for a better payoff twenty years down the road. In simplest terms, the “balance” of the investment fund is shifted gradually step-by-step away from stocks [...]
Scott Phillips and Lauren Templeton: John Templeton’s Advice for Self Assessment, Part 2
Posted in Business, Investing, Markets, Money, Philosophy, Quotes, Stock Market, Stocks, Wall Street on April 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
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, 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 [...]
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 [...]
