Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
Transamerica Corporation Pension Plan
Data updated 2026-07-24
- $2.3B
- Total assets
- 6,519
- Participants
- 99th
- Percentile by assets
- $356,455
- Avg per participant
Official DOL plan name: Transamerica Pension Plan · Sponsored by Transamerica Corporation · Iowa · Finance & Insurance
$2.3B in assets, 6,519 participants
Transamerica Corporation's Transamerica Pension Plan reported $2.3B in total assets and 6,519 participants in its 2023 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 99th percentile by assets among filed plans. Figures are as reported by the plan sponsor to the Department of Labor, not audited or endorsed by PlainRetire.
- 99th percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
What the 2023 filing shows
Transamerica Pension Plan holds $2.3B for 6,519 participants - about $356,455 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, up 4.2% over the 2023 plan year.
- $2.3B
- total plan assets (2023 EOY)
- 6,519
- covered participants
- 99th
- percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
- $356,455
- avg assets per participant
Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023
What the Filing Says About Transamerica Pension Plan
Transamerica Pension Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Transamerica Corporation, headquartered in Iowa. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $2.3B in total end-of-year assets and covers 6,519 participants across the Finance & Insurance industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 421484983, and the plan has been effective since 1977-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.
Year over year, total assets edged up modestly from $2.2B at the beginning of 2023 to $2.3B at year-end - up 4.2%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $2.3B, with reported net income of $93M 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 Transamerica Corporation has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $4.3B to $5.1B, a gain of 16.8%, while reported participants moved from 14,051 to 27,681 (+97.0%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $5.1B; the softest was 2022 at $4.3B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $4.3B in assets across 2 plans covering 14,051 participants; 2023 - $4.7B in assets across 3 plans covering 13,518 participants; 2024 - $5.1B in assets across 6 plans covering 27,681 participants.
By assets, Transamerica Pension Plan outranks 99% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 23x 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 Transamerica Pension Plan 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) | $2.2B |
|---|---|
| Total Assets (End of Year) | $2.3B |
| Net Assets (End of Year) | $2.3B |
| Net Income | $93M |
| Plan Type | Defined Benefit (Pension) |
| Employer EIN | 421484983 |
| Plan Effective Date | 1977-01-01 |
| Filing Status | FILING RECEIVED |
Sponsor Plan History (Transamerica Corporation)
| Year | Plans | Participants | Total Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | 14,051 | $4.3B |
| 2023 | 3 | 13,518 | $4.7B |
| 2024 | 6 | 27,681 | $5.1B |
Nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans in Iowa
Peer Defined Benefit (Pension) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.
Transamerica Pension Plan vs. nearby Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Iowa, assets vs. participants
- Principal Cash Balance Plan $1.7B · 12,492
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- Employers Mutual Casualty Company Retirement Plan $347M · 1,835
- Non-Contributory Retirement Program for Certain Employees of Wellmark, Inc. $297M · 1,474
- Pension Plan of the Plumbers and Steamfitters Local Union No. 33 Retirement Trust $293M · 1,164
Similar-Sized Defined Benefit (Pension) Plans Nationally
Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in other states closest to Transamerica Pension Plan by total assets, not by location.
- Ernst & Young Defined Benefit Retirement Plan (NJ) $2.3B · 45,954
- Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. Pension Plan for Salaried Employees (PA) $2.3B · 1,071
- Reynolds and Affiliates Pension Plan (NC) $2.3B · 997
- New York Hotel Trades Council and Hotel Association of New York City, Inc. Pension Fund (NY) $2.3B · 24,024
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What this filing means
Ways to act on Transamerica Pension Plan's numbers.
- By total assets, Transamerica Pension Plan ranks among the largest 1% of all filed plans. See the largest plans
- Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Defined Benefit (Pension) plans in Iowa. Compare plans
- Transamerica Corporation's sponsor-wide assets have grown 16.8% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Finance & Insurance plans
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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 421484983.
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.
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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 2026-07-24.