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The Finway Group401(k)

THE ARCHITECT RETIREMENT PEP · WEST DES MOINES, IA · plan year 2024

Reported admin expense ratio · 2024
0.77%

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

The Finway Group reported $706,018 in plan administrative expenses for 2024: 0.77% of average plan assets, higher than ~90% of peers. Employer contributions averaged $956 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.

The plan sits in the $50M–$250M size bracket, benchmarked here against 10,352 comparable plans and shown alongside other manufacturing employers. By assets it is the 67th-largest of 878 plans among Iowa employers on file, and the 1,445th of 13,661 in manufacturing. In 2024, employees put in $2.56 for every $1.00 the employer contributed.

Plan summary
Net assets, end of year$146,238,189
Participants with balances2,988
Active participants6,239
Employer contributions$5,962,534
Employee contributions$15,280,440
Employer contribution per active participant$956
Average account balance$48,942
Benefits paid to participants$16,401,986
Plan auditUnmodified (clean) audit opinion
Administrative expenses, itemized · 2024
Recordkeeping & contract admin$706,018
Total administrative$706,018
The The Finway Group 401(k) match · 2024
Employer contribution per active participant$956
Median for plans this size$3,635

The Finway Group's 2024 employer contribution ran below the $3,635 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.

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 · 20247
WORLD INVESTMENT ADVISORS · Investment advisory (plan)$57,543
COTA STREET INV. MGMT · Investment management$44,984
BROKERS INTL · Investment advisory (plan)$16,852
CERITY PARTNERS RETIREMENT · Investment advisory (plan)$16,112
OLSEN THIELEN$14,300
THE FINWAY GROUP · Contract administrator$11,450
BENEFIT TRUST CO.$5,982

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

Administrative cost history1
2024$706,018 · 0.77%
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Roquette America, Inc. IA$140.2M · 0.14%
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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 series, EIN 421468222 · Verify on EFAST2 · Amounts are as reported by the plan sponsor for the plan year shown.