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Equitrust Life Insurance Company401(k)

EQUITRUST LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN · CHICAGO, IL · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.03%

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

Equitrust Life Insurance Company reported $8,410 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.03% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $3,482 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 fell from 0.04% to 0.03%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other finance & insurance employers. By assets it is the 1,190th-largest of 3,702 plans among Illinois employers on file, and the 2,177th of 4,798 in finance & insurance. In 2024, employees put in $1.90 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has grown from 260 to 490 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$34,890,138
Participants with balances489
Active participants490
Employer contributions$1,706,092
Employee contributions$3,237,422
Employer contribution per active participant$3,482
Average account balance$71,350
Benefits paid to participants$1,654,818
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
AuditorMILLERCOOPER
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$34.9M · 489 accts · $1.7M emplr
2023$24.7M · 385 accts · $1.3M emplr
2022$17.5M · 266 accts · $931K emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$6,444
Investment management$1,966
Total administrative$8,410
The Equitrust Life Insurance Company 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$3,482
Median for plans this size$2,416
2024$3,482 per active participant
2023$3,310 per active participant
2022$3,580 per active participant

Equitrust Life Insurance Company's 2024 employer contribution ran above the $2,416 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 · 20242
SCHWAB RETIREMENT PLAN SERVICES, IN · Recordkeeping · Investment advisory (participants)$8,334
CHARLES SCHWAB & CO., INC. · Securities brokerage$15

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$8,410 · 0.03%
2023$4,650 · 0.02%
2022$6,564 · 0.04%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 421468417 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.