Fern Exposition Services, LLC401(k)
FERN EXPOSITION SERVICES, LLC 401(K) PLAN · CINCINNATI, OH · plan year 2023
Peer grade: D · admin costs + employer contributions vs same-size plans · how grading works
Fern Exposition Services, LLC reported $52,163 in plan administrative expenses for 2023: 0.44% of average plan assets, higher than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $949 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 0.45% to 0.50%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 26,779 comparable plans and shown alongside other administrative & support services employers. By assets it is among the smaller plans on file in Ohio (1,769th of 3,295), and the 870th of 2,534 in administrative & support services. In 2023, employees put in $3.51 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has shrunk from 367 to 315 since 2022.
Fern Exposition Services, LLC's 2023 employer contribution ran below the $2,440 median for plans its size, in the bottom 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 2023 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 870750830 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.