Defined Benefit (Pension) Ā· DOL Form 5500 Ā· 2023

Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc.

Data updated 2026-05-15

$5.4B
Total assets
10,546
Participants
100th
Percentile by assets
$512,046
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Aetna Inc. Ā· Connecticut Ā· Finance & Insurance

What the 2023 filing shows

Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc. holds $5.4B for 10,546 participants - about $512,046 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, up 0.8% over the 2023 plan year.

$5.4B
total plan assets (2023 EOY)
10,546
covered participants
100th
percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
$512,046
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Finance & Insurance

Defined Benefit (Pension) Ā· DOL Form 5500 Ā· 2023

What the Filing Says About Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc.

Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc. is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Aetna Inc., headquartered in Connecticut. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $5.4B in total end-of-year assets and covers 10,546 participants across the Finance & Insurance industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 232229683, and the plan has been effective since 1955-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets held essentially flat from $5.4B at the beginning of 2023 to $5.4B at year-end - up 0.8%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $5.4B, with reported net income of $29M driven by investment returns, contributions received, and benefit payments during the period. These figures reflect what the plan administrator certified on Schedule H or Schedule I of the Form 5500 annual return and can be compared against 2 prior plan-year filings from the same sponsor shown below.

Across the 3 plan years Aetna Inc. has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $5.4B to $5.2B, a decline of 2.2%, while reported participants moved from 11,471 to 9,682 (-15.6%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2023 at $5.4B; the softest was 2024 at $5.2B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $5.4B in assets across 1 plan covering 11,471 participants; 2023 - $5.4B in assets across 1 plan covering 10,546 participants; 2024 - $5.2B in assets across 1 plan covering 9,682 participants.

By assets, Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc. outranks nearly all the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 54x the national average plan size of $100M and 730 average participants.

Asset totals and participant counts reflect a single plan year snapshot and can change materially with market conditions, plan mergers, or workforce changes. Fields such as "net income" include both realized investment performance and contribution/distribution flows, a single-year figure does not by itself indicate plan health or participant outcomes. This page summarizes public DOL disclosures for research and educational purposes only and is not retirement, tax, legal, or financial advice. Before making decisions about your own retirement benefits or evaluating an employer's plan, verify the underlying filing directly via the DOL EFAST2 system and consult a qualified professional.

How the percentile is calculated: we count every plan that filed a 2023 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (126,618 plans), rank Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc. against all of them by total assets, and report the share of those plans it outranks. A plan reporting no asset figure for the year is excluded from the ranking rather than assumed to be zero.

Financial Summary (2023)

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$5.4B
Total Assets (End of Year)$5.4B
Net Assets (End of Year)$5.4B
Net Income$29M
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN232229683
Plan Effective Date1955-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Aetna Inc.)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 11,471 $5.4B
2023 1 10,546 $5.4B
2024 1 9,682 $5.2B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc.?
As of the 2023 Form 5500 filing, Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc. holds $5.4B in total assets with 10,546 participants. It is sponsored by Aetna Inc..
What type of plan is Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc.?
Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc. is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 1955-01-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 232229683.
Who sponsors the Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc.?
Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc. is sponsored by Aetna Inc., located in Connecticut. The sponsor's EIN is 232229683 and the plan operates in the Finance & Insurance industry.
How did Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc. perform in 2023?
Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc. held essentially flat - up 0.8% during 2023, moving from $5.4B to $5.4B in total assets. Net income was $29M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Retirement Plan for Employees of Aetna Inc.'s numbers.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Plan year 2023.

Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 232229683.

Reference: IRS Publication 560, Retirement Plans for Small Business, contribution-limit rules.

Reference: IRS Publication 590-B, Distributions from IRAs, RMD rules under SECURE Act 2.0.

Data sourced from U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA). See our methodology for details.

Every figure on PlainRetire is rendered directly from the Department of Labor's Form 5500 annual return filings, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-05-15.