What are REW Consultants LLC expectations from an equity perspective as of September 2009?
A6: See Equity Perspective bullet points below. On the positive side: Since March 2009, stocks have rallied much stronger and faster than most expected yet consistent with our forecasted V shaped market recovery for this year. Even with this growth, significant investment money still sits on the sidelines. Even with this strong recovery, high quality stocks with strong fundamentals are fairly attractive since their price-to-earnings multiples are still below long-term averages. The initial bounce off the bottom of a bear market is usually exceptionally strong, and the sectors and regions that were beaten down the most generally lead in the bulls market beginning (Financials, Materials, Industrials, Technology, and Consumer Discretionary Sectors and Emerging Market Regions are examples). Perhaps one of the most encouraging developments is the participation of foreign central banks via coordinated monetary policy, simultaneous interest rate cuts, and backstop measures to ensure adequate
