News Releases

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• 12/16/2021 Treasurer Wooden Announces Successful $800 Million General Obligation Bond Sale CT Moves Forward on “Social Bonds” Program while Saving Taxpayers Millions with 20-Year Borrowing Below 2%

• 12/8/2021 Treasurer Wooden Announces $100 Million Private Equity Commitment And Presents New Private Equity And Real Assets Investment Opportunities; Real Assets Opportunity Targets Low-Carbon Infrastructure To Confront Climate Risk

• 12/3/2021 Statement From State Treasurer Shawn T. Wooden Following The Announcement Of Comptroller Kevin Lembo’s Resignation

• 12/1/2021 Treasurer Wooden Reacts To The Potential Impact The Omicron Variant And Inflation Have On The Economy; Treasurer Wooden Shares Outlook On Global And U.S. Market Climate

• 12/1/2021 Give The Gift Of Education With Chet This Holiday Season; Spread Cheer that Lasts a Lifetime and Learn Seven Tips to Tackle the CHET Gifting Conversation

• 11/24/2021 Statement From State Treasurer Shawn T Wooden on the Guilty Verdicts in the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery

  Statement From State Treasurer Shawn T. Wooden on the Guilty Verdicts in the Murder of Ahmaud Arbery

• 11/11/2021 Treasurer Wooden Announces Successful $500 Million Transportation Bond Sale Applauds Passage Of New Federal Infrastructure Bill; Connecticut Transportation Bonds Help Leverage Historic Federal Transportation Funding

• 11/10/2021 Treasurer Wooden Announces Nearly $800 Million In Commitments and Presents a Private Equity Investment Opportunity; Wooden Provided a Third Quarter Update to the Connecticut Retirement Plans and Trust Funds Performance

• 11/8/2021 Treasurer Wooden Announces Selection of State Street Bank & Trust as New Master Custodian Bank for Connecticut’s Pension Funds

• 11/2/2021 Treasurer Wooden Announces 2021 CHET Dream Big! Winners; Prizes Will Help Students Save For Higher Education; Over $4.5 Million Has Been Awarded To Connecticut Students Since 2013

• 10/28/2021 Treasurer Wooden and Senator Marilyn Moore Kick Off Statewide CT Baby Bonds Education Tour at the Alliance For Community Empowerment; Healthcare Providers and Community Partners Help to Spread the Word: CT Baby Bonds will Benefit Communities Across the State

• 10/27/2021 Media Alert - Tomorrow: Treasurer Wooden and Senator Marilyn Moore Visit the Alliance For Community Empowerment to Kick Off Statewide CT Baby Bonds Education Tour; Healthcare Providers and Community Partners Help to Spread the Word: CT Baby Bonds Will Benefit Communities Across the State

• 9/30/2021 Treasurer Wooden Joins Sen. Booker, Sen. Blumenthal, Rep. DeLauro And Rep. Larson To Celebrate the Enactment Of CT Baby Bonds And Urge Congress To Pass The American Opportunity Accounts Act ; Connecticut is Leading the Way to Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap

• 9/29/2021 Media Alert - Tomorrow: Treasurer Wooden Will Join Sen. Booker, Sen. Blumenthal, Rep. DeLauro and Rep. Larson to Celebrate Enactment of CT Baby Bonds and Urge Congress to Pass the American Opportunity Accounts Act to Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap; CT Baby Bonds Became First-of-its-Kind Enacted in the Nation

• 9/27/2021 Treasurer Wooden, For Only the Second Time in History, Transfers Estimated $1.623 Billion Budget Reserve Fund Excess to Pay Down Long-Term Pension Liabilities; Treasurer Wooden, For Only the Second Time in History, Transfers Estimated $1.623 Billion Budget Reserve Fund Excess to Pay Down Long-Term Pension Liabilities