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Ascend Performance Materials Holdings Inc.401(k)

ASCEND SAVINGS & INVESTMENT PLAN · HOUSTON, TX · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.01%

Peer grade: A- · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works

Ascend Performance Materials Holdings Inc. reported $52,528 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.01% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $5,921 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 3 years on file its reported administrative ratio has held roughly steady near 0.010%. The plan sits in the $250M–$1B size bracket, benchmarked here against 2,883 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is the 191st-largest of 5,688 plans among Texas employers on file, and the 534th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2024, employees put in $2.73 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has shrunk from 2,505 to 1,827 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$548,251,489
Participants with balances2,642
Active participants1,827
Employer contributions$10,818,240
Employee contributions$29,517,192
Employer contribution per active participant$5,921
Average account balance$207,514
Benefits paid to participants$91,121,872
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorKPMG LLP
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$548.3M · 2,642 accts · $10.8M emplr
2023$524.5M · 2,930 accts · $19.0M emplr
2022$458.4M · 3,015 accts · $20.8M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$52,528
Total administrative$52,528
The Ascend Performance Materials Holdings Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$5,921
Median for plans this size$4,294
2024$5,921 per active participant
2023$8,279 per active participant
2022$8,306 per active participant

Ascend Performance Materials Holdings Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran above the $4,294 median for plans its size. 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.

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Service providers · 20241
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS INSTITUTIONAL · Loan processingindirect comp

Compensation shown is direct payments from plan assets reported on Schedule C. Providers paid through fund revenue-sharing appear as indirect.

Administrative cost history3
2024$52,528 · 0.01%
2023$55,984 · 0.01%
2022$45,919 · 0.01%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 270219853 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.