Illustration: Humility and Grace

'You can't outperform the market if you buy the market' was one of his favourite sayings. How did he manage to beat it so spectacularly himself? Sir John Templeton's greatest weapon as an investor was his optimism especially when most other ...

A hundred years ago, almost nobody invested outside their own country. Even 50 years ago, investing in Europe was a mission for the brave and, possibly, only those with local know-how. John Templeton, the pioneer of the globally diversified ...

(via arborinvestmentplanner.com) John Templeton was a legend in his time, a simple yet avant-garde value investor who bucked conventional wisdom and left us with a simple investment plan for self-directed investors. Shared: Twitter:

My before-I-take-off-for-vacation longer-form weekend reading: • Sir John Templeton: The Last Yankee ( Crossing Wall Street ) • Welcome to Bakersfield, California ( FT ) see also An FT story lets Wall Street off the hook ( Columbia Journalism ...

The Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Notre Dame has received a $1.8 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to pursue questions related to the nature of human existence, the Notre Dame Observer reports. The grant will ...

Bob Farrell knows investment markets. Though not as famous as Warren Buffet, George Soros or sir John Templeton, Farrell spent more than five decades working on Wall street after joining Merrill Lynch in 1957. I n 1992, after over 30 years on ...

One of the world's most successful mutual fund managers, John Templeton eventually dedicated much of his money and energy toward funding research into the relationships between two of his deepest fascinations: science and religion. Born in 1912 ...

My Mentor, Sir John Templeton, was a strong believer in 'buy at the point of maximum pessimism.' Unless you live under a rock, you are well aware that emerging markets have not only had a few rough years, they've also had a rough start to 2014 (EEM ...

Franklin Templeton Investments said it has bought assets denominated in South Korea's won and Malaysia's ringgit and sold those in the yen as the Japanese government adds record stimulus. The impact on emerging-market economies of the Federal ...