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Retirement Security Matters: December 15, 2022

While you’re busy with the hustle and bustle with friends, family, and your community all preparing to celebrate the big holidays, don’t forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. Curl up for a moment in those footie socks with some wassail and catch yourself up:

  • Martha Deevy on optimizing 100-year lives and the importance of financial resiliency

  • Key updates from California, Colorado, Delaware, Maryland, New York State, and Virginia

  • DCIIA, The Aspen Institute, and Morningstar – joint venture in expanding equitable retirement

  • What’s one piece of hopeful news you heard this week? – check out Hot Sauce and Cool Stuff

  • Pix of the week to boost your day

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Retirement Security Matters: September 22, 2022

Can you feel it? A slight change in the air. A crispness that you don’t remember being there last week. It’s true! Autumn is coming in two days and we’re ending the month with plenty-o-updates. So grab a milkshake (we take ours malted) and settle in:

  • Research docket and wealth gap surprises with Morningstar’s Aron Szapiro

  • State Auto IRA metrics – 36,000 new funded accounts in one month

  • A closer look at … Maine, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, and New York

  • Can friction benefit retirement savers? Yes! Behavioral scientist Lindsay Juarez explains

  • Hot Sauce! Fresh research and some brain expanders

  • And, Pix of the week

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Retirement Security Matters: May 19, 2022

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!

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