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 2
Posted in Business, Finance, Investing, Stocks, Wall Street on May 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lauren Templeton and Scott Phillips, coauthors of Investing the Templeton Way, continue their analysis of John Templeton’s 1945 letter on planned investment. A recent article in their newsletter to investors highlights the importance of planned investment: Here’s an excerpt from the Maximum Pessimism Report (www.maximumpessimism.com): One year and +72.9% after the March 9, 2009 bottom, investors [...]
$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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Quick Quotes
Posted in Investing, Philosophy, Quotes, Stocks, Wall Street on August 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are two great quotes from Sir John Templeton about the importance of diversifying your investments: 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 [...]
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