We are making our way out of Hannukah, into those critical ten days before Christmas Eve, and blasting toward the New Year. If you’re working, you are probably working very hard and in need of a good break. Grab a cocoa-coffee and let’s catch up on the latest from the world of retirement security. We’re going to start with some innovation:

• Guideline’s Jeff Rosenberger and Jeremy Caballero: Starter K, plus a lot

• Fressssh! state metrics 🥁

• States in action: Delaware, Maine, and Virginia

• What’s 2024 got in store for us? Future-think with RSM.

• Hot Sauce - just a dash this week, and

• PIXXXXX!

We first met Aaron Schumm in the rooms where nerdy people talk about the future of retirement savings, and how it might be made better, faster. As a private sector expert he is, of course, anything but nerdy. Aaron is the founder and CEO of Vestwell, a “modern engine powering savings and investment programs for small businesses and individual savers”. So what do they think of Auto IRAs? We had to know.