News Releases

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• 9/3/2019 Treasurer Wooden Launches National College Savings Month With Special CHET Offer for September; New and Existing CHET Savings Accounts Eligible for $50 Bonus

• 12/9/2024 Treasurer Erick Russell Highlights Rating Upgrade at CHET College Savings Plan Meeting

• 5/9/2024 Treasurer Erick Russell Statement on Passage of Proposal to Reduce Long-Term Transportation Debt

• 1/17/2022 Treasurer Shawn T. Wooden Announces New Principal Investment Officer For Connecticut’s Public Funds; Denise Stake Will Manage The State’s $5.2 Billion Real Assets Portfolio

• 5/15/2025 TREASURER RUSSELL ANNOUNCES LAUNCH OF “CT BIG MATCH,” A STREAMLINED SYSTEM THAT RETURNS UNCLAIMED PROPERTY FASTER THAN EVER

• 3/18/2024 Treasurer Russell Announces 2023 CHET Dream Big! Competition Winners

• 6/18/2025 Treasurer Russell Condemns Supreme Court Decision on Transgender Health Care, Urges States to Join CT’s Safe Harbor Fund

• 11/21/2024 Treasurer Russell Statement on the Passing of Former Governor M. Jodi Rell

• 10/14/2020 State Treasurer Shawn Wooden Launches Able CT To Benefit Connecticut’s Disability Community

• 10/16/2019 Treasurer Wooden Launches Economic Empowerment Listening Tour

• 2/25/2021 Treasurer Wooden Unveils Enhanced, User-Friendly Online Unclaimed Property Management System for CT; Over $914 Million In Unclaimed Property Waiting For Its Rightful Owners To Claim

• 6/6/2019 Nearly 70 Percent of Facebook's Non-Insider Votes Support Independent Board Chair; Shareholder Resolution Co-filed by Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds, Public Plans

• 6/6/2019 Hartford Courant - Connecticut Treasurer Among Those Calling on Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to Give Up Chairman Role

• 6/20/2019 Treasurer Wooden Names Laurie Martin Chief Investment Officer of State's $35.5 Billion Pension Plans; With Appointment, Key Leader To Focus on Stability and Other Initiatives to Keep Connecticut on 'Right Fiscal Path'

• 7/22/2019 Treasurer Wooden Calls on CCSU Summer Program Students to be Economically Empowered; to Seek Both Higher Education & Financial Education to Fortify Their Futures As Educational Opportunity Program Prepares Young Adults with the Skills to Succeed in College, Treasurer Joins Junior Achievement to Talk Savings & Spending Basics to Help Shape College Careers & Beyond