Dr. Mingli Zhong asks important questions about how we can optimize the way we use automatic features in our retirement savings plans and programs. She’s also studying pandemic-related impacts on savers, going beyond top-level results to understand how this economy is differentiating between those of us that kept our jobs, and those of us who didn’t.

How did the “automatic” enrollment movement in retirement readiness start — and what were the unexpected twists and turns along the way? We talk with J. Mark Iwry, former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury, serving concurrently as the Treasury Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Retirement and Health Policy. Great insights here!

Andrew Remo has worked for the American Retirement Association’s government affairs department for more than eight years. He advocates before Congress and in the States for policies that achieve the American Retirement Association’s mission to give every working American the ability to have a comfortable retirement. Expanded - may we say more universal - coverage is a priority for the organization. We talk here about what that looks like.