To us here in the US, Happy Almost 🦃Thanksgiving! … and a thank you note from us to you. Let us give you a little break between email and making your friends-and-family plans to catch up on the world of retirement security. It’s cold here – grab your pumpkin spice and nestle in:

• Leaning into Latinx – we can do better – what we learned in the great PR

• We have fresh State Auto IRA metrics

• Key updates from California, Delaware, Maine, New Mexico, and Oregon

• Joel Metlen invites you to think about social determinants of health and well being

• We keep your brain spicy with Hot Sauce, Cool Stuff

• PIX of the week! – some sunshine and a soliloquy from a 500-year-old town

We love summer! In between work days and getting things done, we hope you’re enjoying the sun where you are. Grab a lemonade. We’re here to catch you up on the world of retirement security, and just a bit more:

• Will Sandbrook on Nest UK, age ten.

• Frrreshhh state metrics

• Updates from California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, New Mexico, and Hawaii.

• Can tuning your design lead to better user outcomes? Behavioral scientist Perry Wright opines.

• Hot Sauce! … new research from our esteemed friends across the US.

• And, PIX of the Week! – we’re taking you outdoors and to the beach 🌅

It’s May, so that means summer is almost here – right?! If the weather starts to warm up where you are, crack those windows open – we hope you’re working remotely -- and let the fresh air waft through your space while you catch up on what is going on in the world of retirement security. You will not want to miss:

• Small employer plans, technology, fees, Auto IRAs, and more with insider J.D. Carlson

• State metrics – we’ve got the latest!

• Updates from California, Colorado, New Mexico, Connecticut, Maine, Virginia, and Hawaii

• The Next Generation. Expert Joel Metlen weighs in

• Hot Sauce! … 2 events you won’t want to miss TODAY and TOMORROW, plus what’s really working in the DEI space right now, and why you care

• And we got your PIX of the Week!