The Principal Life Insurance Co. wanted to know: Should revenue-sharing payments it receives for services rendered to an ERISA plan be considered part of the plans assets?

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The plan is designed to help small businesses control their health care budgets while giving their employees a greater variety of health plan options.

Somewhere in all that data are the answers to the questions retirement plan advisors and their clients ask routinely.