With Thanksgiving around the corner, grab a cocoa and join us by the (imaginary) cabin fire for a quick dose of smart fun. We’ve got Michael Kreps on 2025’s Quiet Retirement Revolution, a State Auto IRA check-in, news highlights, insights from the road, a few spicy takes, and—naturally—our Pix of the Week.

It’s now been over three years since the first workers started saving through state-sponsored retirement plans, and because states took an open approach and provided access for researchers to do their important work, we’ve seen a steady stream of extremely interesting findings and reports come out to help answer some of the biggest questions in the retirement policy world.