Can you believe it? As we say farewell to August, September has blasted in. This week, RSM is dropping the summer s-t-r-e-t-c-h and resuming its bi-weekly schedule. Stop thinking about baseball, or your kids, grab a refreshing beverage, and get ready to ease into fall with some content to make you smarter, better, and faster. We said it.

• Fall Season - Getting Ready for 2024! And tips for the rest of 2023

• Frrreshhh state metrics vs. the much anticipated $1 billion in assets milestone

• Updates from California, Colorado + Maine, Illinois and Massachusetts

• Best Practices: We go blue.

• Hot Sauce! and some cooool stuff

• … PIC of the Week! Just one.

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!

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.