As September wraps up, take a moment to recharge! Grab a drink and dive into insights on stronger teams driving retirement success, fresh state metrics, updates from Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, and Maryland, and the link between financial experience and competence. Don’t miss Hot Sauce, cool finds, and Pix of the Week as we go west. Let’s go!

We gave you a lot to think about in our last edition – with focus areas ranging across the spaces of legislative advocacy, financial expertise, and tech innovation. And we promised you a little bit more.

With the nip of fall in the air, we are looking forward. It’s conference season, so we’ll see you out and about. And as you are sharing social moments with colleagues, thinking creatively about the future, we’ve got you covered.

• What financial advisors think about Auto IRAs: Alice Tang in Oregon

• What metric has just crossed 50,000? *Fresh* state stats!

• Updates from California, Connecticut, Illinois, Maryland, and Oregon

• Lorie Latham on Retirement Program oversight: Five Tips from a Pro

• Hot Sauce … new proposal, new research, and some fun stuff

• Pix of the Week! snow, broken bones, dogs, toilet paper … we got it all