• New Investment Insights Blog: "One Year Later…"
• Wespath Featured in Pensions & Investments
• Conference Forum Follow-Up
• Wespath Update to Participants
• Wespath Market Update

New Investment Insights Blog: "One Year Later…"

COVID-19 ushered in a dual public health and economic crisis, reshaping many tenets of our shared society. One year later, Wespath's Joe Halwax explains why he's still a believer in human resiliency and our collective ability to adapt to a new normal. Read more in our new Investment Insights blog.

Wespath Featured in Pensions & Investments

Wespath CIO Dave Zellner was featured in Pensions & Investments, highlighting the importance of the Paris Climate Agreement and transparency in corporate lobbying activities. Read the new op-ed here.

Conference Forum Follow-Up

Thank you to all the conference representatives who attended the second week of our Conference Forum (March 11). We value your ongoing partnership in serving UMC participants, and are providing copies of the presentations from the event. The Conference Forum—as other communications with the conference benefit officers, treasurers and staff—has provided context to the information provided below. Please consider this as you make decisions about the appropriateness of sharing these materials with those who were not in attendance.

Presentations, videos and handouts from the March 4 and March 11 Conference Forum events are available here.

Additional Conference Forum details are available here.

Wespath Update to Participants

Our most recent participant e-blast communication was sent Wednesday, March 17. In this issue we:

• Provided participants a Q&A about COVID-19 vaccines
• Highlighted Wespath's endorsement of the Access to Medicine Foundation's call for a fair and equitable global response to COVID-19 which urges world leaders to support fair access to COVID-19 vaccines and treatments
• Continued to promote the Saving Grace money management program that provides participants the text and tools to address the topics of saving, earning, giving, spending and debt
• Provided HealthFlex participants with information on updates to Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)

Wespath Market Update

Read our latest Wespath Market Update, a weekly investment summary that succinctly recaps economic and financial market activity for the prior week. If you, or others, wish to receive this email update, please send your contact information (name, email and organization) to InvestmentInfo@wespath.org.

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