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Bankers Retirement Services, Inc.401(k)

CBM RETIREMENT INVESTMENT AND 401(K) PLAN · EAST LANSING, MI · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.24%

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

Bankers Retirement Services, Inc. reported $139,600 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.24% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $2,464 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 0.22% to 0.24%. 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 429th-largest of 2,619 plans among Michigan employers on file, and the 1,392nd of 4,798 in finance & insurance. In 2024, employees put in $2.27 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$63,760,861
Participants with balances784
Active participants742
Employer contributions$1,828,359
Employee contributions$4,144,861
Employer contribution per active participant$2,464
Average account balance$81,328
Benefits paid to participants$7,389,900
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$63.8M · 784 accts · $1.8M emplr
2023$54.5M · 816 accts · $1.5M emplr
2022$46.5M · 831 accts · $1.6M emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$139,600
Total administrative$139,600
The Bankers Retirement Services, Inc. 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$2,464
Median for plans this size$3,635
2024$2,464 per active participant
2023$2,066 per active participant
2022$2,034 per active participant

Bankers Retirement Services, Inc.'s 2024 employer contribution ran below the $3,635 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.

What these fees cost you

Annual cost at the plan's reported 2024 administrative ratio, against the median plan its size; fund expense ratios are extra. Compare any plan.

Service providers · 20244
BANKERS RETIREMENT SERVICES, INC. · Trustee (directed)$32,524
EMPOWER ADVISORY GROUP · Investment management$5,329
WATKINS ROSS · Contract administrator$500

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$139,600 · 0.24%
2023$135,117 · 0.27%
2022$79,575 · 0.22%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 853255425 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.