Money Purchase · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

Southern Electrical Retirement Fund

Data updated 2026-05-15

$1.9B
Total assets
11,228
Participants
99th
Percentile by assets
$169,559
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Board of Trustees - Southern Electrical Retirement Fund · Tennessee · Construction

What the 2023 filing shows

Southern Electrical Retirement Fund holds $1.9B for 11,228 participants - about $169,559 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, up 10.6% over the 2023 plan year.

$1.9B
total plan assets (2023 EOY)
11,228
covered participants
99th
percentile by assets (of 126,618 plans)
$169,559
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Construction

Money Purchase · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

What the Filing Says About Southern Electrical Retirement Fund

Southern Electrical Retirement Fund is a Money Purchase retirement plan sponsored by Board of Trustees - Southern Electrical Retirement Fund, headquartered in Tennessee. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2023 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $1.9B in total end-of-year assets and covers 11,228 participants across the Construction industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 626125711, and the plan has been effective since 1975-03-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $1.7B at the beginning of 2023 to $1.9B at year-end - up 10.6%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $1.9B, with reported net income of $204M 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 Board of Trustees - Southern Electrical Retirement Fund has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $1.7B to $2.2B, a gain of 27.3%, while reported participants moved from 10,582 to 11,461 (+8.3%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $2.2B; the softest was 2022 at $1.7B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $1.7B in assets across 1 plan covering 10,582 participants; 2023 - $1.9B in assets across 1 plan covering 11,228 participants; 2024 - $2.2B in assets across 1 plan covering 11,461 participants.

By assets, Southern Electrical Retirement Fund outranks 99% of the 126,618 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2023 plan year, and holds roughly 19x 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 Southern Electrical Retirement Fund 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)$1.7B
Total Assets (End of Year)$1.9B
Net Assets (End of Year)$1.9B
Net Income$204M
Plan TypeMoney Purchase
Employer EIN626125711
Plan Effective Date1975-03-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Board of Trustees - Southern Electrical Retirement Fund)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 1 10,582 $1.7B
2023 1 11,228 $1.9B
2024 1 11,461 $2.2B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Southern Electrical Retirement Fund?
As of the 2023 Form 5500 filing, Southern Electrical Retirement Fund holds $1.9B in total assets with 11,228 participants. It is sponsored by Board of Trustees - Southern Electrical Retirement Fund.
What type of plan is Southern Electrical Retirement Fund?
Southern Electrical Retirement Fund is a Money Purchase plan. It has been effective since 1975-03-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 626125711.
Who sponsors the Southern Electrical Retirement Fund?
Southern Electrical Retirement Fund is sponsored by Board of Trustees - Southern Electrical Retirement Fund, located in Tennessee. The sponsor's EIN is 626125711 and the plan operates in the Construction industry.
How did Southern Electrical Retirement Fund perform in 2023?
Southern Electrical Retirement Fund grew at a solid clip - up 10.6% during 2023, moving from $1.7B to $1.9B in total assets. Net income was $204M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Southern Electrical Retirement Fund's numbers.

  • By total assets, Southern Electrical Retirement Fund ranks among the largest 1% of all filed plans. See the largest plans
  • Compare it side-by-side against 3 similar Money Purchase plans in Tennessee. Compare plans
  • Board of Trustees - Southern Electrical Retirement Fund's sponsor-wide assets have grown 27.3% since 2022 across 3 plan years on file. More Construction plans
  • A Money Purchase plan works differently from other retirement plan types, understand the structural differences before comparing. Compare plan types

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 626125711.

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.