401(k) · DOL Form 5500 · 2023

Advance Publications, Inc. 401(k) Plan

Data updated 2026-08-25

$1.5B
Total assets Very large vs avg
7,004
Participants Above avg headcount
99th
Percentile by assets National rank
$219,351
Avg per participant Above avg balance/head
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Official DOL plan name: Advance 401(k) Plan · Sponsored by Advance Publications, Inc. · New York · Information & Media

$1.5B in assets, 7,004 participants

Advance Publications, Inc.'s Advance 401(k) Plan reported $1.5B in total assets and 7,004 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.

  • #2,762 in Information & Media (2,818 peers)

Coverage in New York

Advance 401(k) Plan covers 7,004 participants in New York, 8.8x the typical New York plan (state average ~798 per filing). Assets: $1.5B.

#2,762
in Information & Media (2,818 peers)
+14.1%
assets growth YoY
15×
vs typical plan assets (national mean)

Advance 401(k) Plan's outsized position by total assets

Advance 401(k) Plan vs every filed plan by assets

End-of-year total assets · plan year 2023 · DOL Form 5500

$1,536,331,676 Top 1% higher than 99% of 127,068 filed plans

This plan $0 $2,050,000,000 every filed plan with reported assets, bucketed by value

Dashed line + filled bar = this entry, among filed plans.

Source U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500 filings (EBSA) · plan year 2023

Advance 401(k) Plan's large-plan peer group by participant headcount

Plan-year 2023 Form 5500 filings with a reported participant count, partitioned by headcount band, not by assets. Advance 401(k) Plan lands in the large band (7,004 participants).

What changed between DOL Form 5500 filings

plan year 2022 → plan year 2023

  • Advance 401(k) Plan reported net income rose from -$299M in the plan year 2022 filing to $181M in the plan year 2023 filing.
  • Advance 401(k) Plan end-of-year assets rose from $1.3B in the plan year 2022 filing to $1.5B in the plan year 2023 filing.
  • Advance 401(k) Plan reported participants rose from 6,795 in the plan year 2022 filing to 7,004 in the plan year 2023 filing.

See the national 2022→2023 release diff →

DOL schedule card

Filing strip 135576716 · Advance Publications, Inc. PY 2023 · 401(k)

Advance 401(k) Plan · $1.5B · 7,004 · 99th

  • PHOTO $1.5B
  • IND 7,004
  • EOY 99th
  • 5500 401(k)
  • ASSETS near Aptiv Salaried 401(k) Plan
  • PCT ind #2762

Stamps derive from this plan's Form 5500 line items (assets, participants, type, EIN, cohort placement) - not a quality rating of the sponsor. Read with Information & Media retirement plans → · Plans in New York →

Advance 401(k) Plan in the asset neighbourhood

Advance 401(k) Plan$1.5BAptiv Salaried 401(k) Plan$1.5BMantech International 401(k) PlanMantech International 401(k)…$1.5BJm Family Associates' Profit Sharing and 401(k) PlanJm Family Associates' Profit…$1.5BAmerican Red Cross Savings PlanAmerican Red Cross Savings P…$1.5B
End-of-year total assets ($B) among Advance 401(k) Plan and nearest nationwide 401(k) peers. Source: DOL Form 5500 plan year 2023.

New York filing particulars

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$1.3B
Net Assets (End of Year)$1.5B
Net Income$181M
Employer EIN135576716
Plan Effective Date2011-04-15
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Advance Publications, Inc.)

Sponsor-wide plan assets over time

All Advance Publications, Inc. plans reported in each filing year

Latest sponsor-wide plan assets
$2.6B 11.003618506140473% vs 2022
2024 filing year
$2.2B$2.3B$2.4B$2.5B$2.6B$2.7B 202220232024 $2.32B $2.58B ▲ +11.2%
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 7,665 $2.3B
2023 2 7,774 $2.5B
2024 2 7,387 $2.6B

Nearby 401(k) Plans in New York

Peer 401(k) plans, same state, same plan type, ranked by total assets.

Advance 401(k) Plan vs. nearby 401(k) plans in New York, assets vs. participants Scatter plot of 6 data points. 050000100000150000 -20020406080 Total assets ($B) Participants Advance 401(k) Plan, Total assets ($B): 1.536331676 · Participants: 7004Advance 401(k) PlanIBM 401 (K) Plus Plan, Total assets ($B): 57.428456306 · Participants: 54912IBM 401 (K) Plus PlanPfizer Savings Plan, Total assets ($B): 19.56134085 · Participants: 30033Pfizer Savings PlanMorgan Stanley 401(k) Plan, Total assets ($B): 19.235068266 · Participants: 55363Morgan Stanley 401(k) PlanThe Pepsico Savings Plan, Total assets ($B): 13.651296 · Participants: 133597The Pepsico Savings PlanThe Goldman Sachs 401(k) Plan, Total assets ($B): 11.428659742 · Participants: 24866The Goldman Sachs 401(k) Plan
Advance 401(k) Plan vs. nearby 401(k) plans in New York, assets vs. participants
Compare Advance 401(k) Plan side-by-side with 3 peers →

Scale composition for Advance 401(k) Plan

Advance 401(k) Plan reports $1.5B in end-of-year assets across 7,004 participants (0.012% of the $12.3T held by all Form 5500 filers in the national rollup , and 0.007% of 93,925,755 covered participants) - about $219,351 per participant (1.6x the national average assets-per-participant) . Net income for plan year 2023 was $181M.

This plan identity (EIN 135576716, plan #012) has 3 Form 5500 filings on file from 2022 to 2024 , with end-of-year assets moving from $1.3B to $1.7B (+23.8%) while covered participants moved from 6,795 to 6,761 . Single-year sparse filers cannot show that trail.

Plan year Participants EOY assets Filing
2022 6,795 $1.3B Open filing
2023 7,004 $1.5B This page
2024 · index core 6,761 $1.7B Open filing

The same sponsor also keeps 2 other index-core plans on PlainRetire:

Advance 401(k) Plan's out-of-state 401(k) peers by assets and headcount

Outside New York, the nearest 401(k) by assets is Aptiv Salaried 401(k) Plan in MI ($1.5B); by covered participants it is First Source Employee Management Retirement Plan in OH (7,004 participants). Same-state nearby plans are listed separately above.

Closest by plan assets

Nearest other-state filings by tot_assets_eoy ($1.5B here).

Similar participant headcount

Nearest other-state filings by covered participants (7,004 participants); asset peers above are excluded.

DOL Form 5500 plan year 2023. Asset totals can differ widely at the same headcount; neither axis is a quality rating.

Frequently Asked Questions

How did Advance 401(k) Plan assets move in 2023? ▼
Advance 401(k) Plan grew at a solid clip - up 14.1% during 2023, from $1.3B to $1.5B. Reported net income was $181M.
How have Advance Publications, Inc. plan assets changed over time? ▼
Across 3 plan years on file (2022-2024), Advance Publications, Inc.'s sponsor-wide assets grew 11.0%, from $2.3B to $2.6B.
Where does Advance 401(k) Plan rank by assets among Form 5500 filers? ▼
Advance 401(k) Plan ranks in the 99th percentile by end-of-year assets among 127,072 plans that reported assets for plan year 2023 (among the largest 1% of all filed plans).
Which 401(k) plans are similar in size to Advance 401(k) Plan? ▼
Among 401(k) plans in other states, the closest by assets is Aptiv Salaried 401(k) Plan in MI ($1.5B, 2,557 participants).
Which 401(k) plans cover a similar participant headcount to Advance 401(k) Plan? ▼
Among 401(k) plans in other states, the closest by covered participants is First Source Employee Management Retirement Plan in OH (7,004 participants, $64M in assets).

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 135576716.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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