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The Economist Newspaper Group Incorporated401(k)

THE ECONOMIST GROUP 401(K) PLAN · NEW YORK, NY · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.08%

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

The Economist Newspaper Group Incorporated reported $36,728 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.08% of average plan assets, lower than ~75% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $4,862 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 0.01% to 0.08%. The plan sits in the $10M–$50M size bracket, benchmarked here against 27,838 comparable plans and shown alongside other information & media employers. By assets it is the 1,373rd-largest of 5,648 plans among New York employers on file, and the 513th of 2,199 in information & media. In 2024, employees put in $2.03 for every $1.00 the employer contributed; active participation has shrunk from 177 to 131 since 2022.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$49,697,303
Participants with balances332
Active participants131
Employer contributions$636,926
Employee contributions$1,293,814
Employer contribution per active participant$4,862
Average account balance$149,691
Benefits paid to participants$6,804,846
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Plan history3
Yearassets · accounts · employer contribution
2024$49.7M · 332 accts · $637K emplr
2023$47.3M · 363 accts · $649K emplr
2022$45.4M · 354 accts · $570K emplr
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$36,728
Total administrative$36,728
The The Economist Newspaper Group Incorporated 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$4,862
Median for plans this size$2,416
2024$4,862 per active participant
2023$3,603 per active participant
2022$3,222 per active participant

The Economist Newspaper Group Incorporated's 2024 employer contribution ran above the $2,416 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.

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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 · 20241

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$36,728 · 0.08%
2023$22,299 · 0.05%
2022$2,685 · 0.01%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 132939702 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.