Okay, so how is the current bear market an opportunity, especially for our China Stock Digest subscribers? Well, we have to carefully analyze the investment opportunities and then selectively make investments that we believe are poised for a turnaround. Eventually, this stock market should reverse course and start a new bull market and we’ll try to take advantage of that.

SIR JOHN TEMPLETON, ONE OF THE GREATEST INVESTORS OF ALL TIME, and later in his life, a generous philanthropist, passed away last week at the age of 95. In honor of his passing, here are a few of his investing insights that we’ll remember long after he’s gone:

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Investing can be a bit like the weather on Mount Rainier in June–very unpredictable. You could have a horrendous blizzard one day and then a glorious, warm sunny day the next. That just about sums up the recent action on Wall Street.

The daily mood swings on Wall Street were evident last week as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down on Monday, then was up, down, up, down for the remaining four days of the week, according to Barron’s. In fact, for the 50 trading days ending July 8, the S&P 500 had 15 days when it went up only to be followed the next day by an even greater decline. That’s the highest number of times over a 50-day period that we’ve had “up one day and down even more the next day” since 1940, according to Bespoke Investment Group. It looks as though the blizzard is prevailing right now.

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So what are your thoughts on the concept of retirement? A recent study by Charles Schwab and AgeWave titled, “Rethinking Retirement: Four American Generations Share Their Views on Life’s Third Act,” reached the following conclusions

• Fifty-two percent of respondents see retirement as an opportunity for a new, exciting chapter in life.
• Seventy-one percent of pre-retirees said they want to work in retirement and the most popular reason for working in retirement was to stay mentally active.
• Three in five said they would like to move to a completely different line of work when they retire.

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