Friends – It's our favorite time of year - April is Retirement Security Month! Grab your coffee and join us to sharpen your insights and information. Here's a sampling of what's going on locally, and in a few other parts of the world:

• Jasper Forum's John Mitchem and Jorik Van Zanden: cultural differences impact retirement thinking in the Eurozone, Australia, and the US

• Frrresshhhh state metrics - closing in on $750 million

• Key updates from California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Minnesota and North Carolina ... and we're saving some goodies for the next edition

• Are Millennials getting a Watered Down Deal ?

• Hot Sauce and Cool Stuff

• … and Pix of the week!

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

Farewell June, you’re leaving us too soon! You’ve been eventful, though. Everybody’s active – the states, the federal legislature, the Supreme Court, the activists. We think it’s going to be a hot hot summer. Let’s start with a cool moment catching up on retirement security and celebrating some recent successes. Grab something cold and read on:

• David Bell, Sabra Purifoy and Renzo Meza on OregonSaves at Five – my, you’re looking so good!

• State metrics –May figures are in.

• Updates from California, Colorado and /New Mexico, Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Virginia, and Delaware.

• Could innovation in housing help with retirement and financial security? Joel Metlen opines.

• Hot Sauce! … what 10 state Auto IRAs mean in the US, NEST insight’s annual conference returns this summer, and much more.

• PIX of the Week! – we’re taking you outdoors in the Pacific Northwest.