American Equity Investment Life Holding Company401(k)
AMERICAN EQUITY INVESTMENT PROFIT SHARING AND 401(K) PLAN · WEST DES MOINES, IA · plan year 2024
Peer grade: B+ · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
American Equity Investment Life Holding Company reported $259,241 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.22% of average plan assets, above the peer median. Employer contributions averaged $13,330 per active participant. This ratio covers administrative expenses reported on the plan's Schedule H only; fund-level expense ratios are not included in public structured data — see methodology.
Across the 2 years on file its reported administrative ratio rose from 0.20% to 0.22%. The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other finance & insurance employers. By assets it is the 64th-largest of 878 plans among Iowa employers on file, and the 726th of 4,798 in finance & insurance. In 2024, the employer put in $1.25 for every $1.00 employees contributed themselves.
American Equity Investment Life Holding Company's 2024 employer contribution ran above the $3,635 median for plans its size, placing it in the top quarter of its peers. Filings report dollars actually contributed, not the match formula; the formula itself (for example, 50% of the first 6% of pay) lives in the plan's summary plan description from HR.
Annual cost at the plan's reported 2024 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.
Compensation shown is direct payments from plan assets reported on Schedule C. Providers paid through fund revenue-sharing appear as indirect.
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 421447959 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.