Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account Plan

Data updated 2026-05-15

$1.3B
Total assets
5,426
Participants
99th
Percentile by assets
$237,284
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Zurich American Insurance Company · Illinois · Finance & Insurance

What the 2024 filing shows

Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account Plan holds $1.3B for 5,426 participants - about $237,284 per participant, among the largest 1% of all filed plans, up 0.1% over the 2024 plan year.

$1.3B
total plan assets (2024 EOY)
5,426
covered participants
99th
percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
$237,284
avg assets per participant

The plan reported a net loss of $68M for the year, a single-year figure driven by markets and benefit payments, not a measure of plan health.

State
Industry
Finance & Insurance

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account Plan

Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Zurich American Insurance Company, headquartered in Illinois. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $1.3B in total end-of-year assets and covers 5,426 participants across the Finance & Insurance industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 364233459, and the plan has been effective since 1950-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets held essentially flat from $1.3B at the beginning of 2024 to $1.3B at year-end - up 0.1%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $1.2B, with reported net income of -$68M 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 Zurich American Insurance Company has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $4.3B to $5.0B, a gain of 16.4%, while reported participants moved from 15,149 to 14,727 (-2.8%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $5.0B; the softest was 2022 at $4.3B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $4.3B in assets across 2 plans covering 15,149 participants; 2023 - $4.7B in assets across 2 plans covering 15,265 participants; 2024 - $5.0B in assets across 2 plans covering 14,727 participants.

By assets, Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account Plan outranks 99% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 13x 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 2024 Form 5500 with a reported end-of-year asset figure (116,472 plans), rank Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account 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 (2024)

Total Assets (Beginning of Year)$1.3B
Total Assets (End of Year)$1.3B
Net Assets (End of Year)$1.2B
Net Income-$68M
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN364233459
Plan Effective Date1950-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Zurich American Insurance Company)

Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 15,149 $4.3B
2023 2 15,265 $4.7B
2024 2 14,727 $5.0B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account Plan?
As of the 2024 Form 5500 filing, Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account Plan holds $1.3B in total assets with 5,426 participants. It is sponsored by Zurich American Insurance Company.
What type of plan is Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account Plan?
Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account Plan is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 1950-01-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 364233459.
Who sponsors the Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account Plan?
Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account Plan is sponsored by Zurich American Insurance Company, located in Illinois. The sponsor's EIN is 364233459 and the plan operates in the Finance & Insurance industry.
How did Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account Plan perform in 2024?
Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account Plan held essentially flat - up 0.1% during 2024, moving from $1.3B to $1.3B in total assets. Net income was -$68M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Zurich American Insurance Company Retirement Account Plan's numbers.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA), Form 5500 public disclosure dataset. Plan year 2024.

Source: DOL EFAST2 filing system (efast.dol.gov) - original filing retrieval by EIN 364233459.

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.