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What’s Causing You a Headache?

Have you voted yet in the market research ASPPA is conducting? The results are rolling in, but you can still participate in ASPPA’s effort to identify industry trends that regularly cause the most pain. After the first week, the top five pain points are: 

  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Affiliated service groups and controlled groups; service provider and participant disclosures)
  • Controlled groups and affiliated service groups
  • 401(k)/401(m) regulations on mid-year amendments to safe harbor plans; advanced testing issues under Code Sections 401(a)(4) and 401(b) 
  • Compliance issues as a result of sponsor apathy 
To vote, click here. It only takes a few minutes to participate in this fun, interactive online voting tool. Here’s how it works:

The online tool presents two session ideas. You pick your favorite — or add your own idea for others to vote on.
The process is then repeated, with two more ideas to choose from and another opportunity to suggest a better one. Every time you suggest an idea, it’s added to the pool of ideas that others vote on.

You can vote as often as you’d like, and see which topics are in the lead. The poll will run until the end of June; we’ll let you know about the winning ideas, too. Maybe yours will be one of them.

John Iekel is Senior Writer and Editor for the ASPPA Net and NTSA Net portals.