Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Data updated 2026-07-24

$108M
Total assets
141
Participants
91st
Percentile by assets
$763,242
Avg per participant

Sponsored by Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. · New York · Finance & Insurance

Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.'s Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. reported $108M in total assets and 141 participants in its 2024 DOL Form 5500 filing, ranking in the 91st 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.

What the 2024 filing shows

Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. holds $108M for 141 participants - about $763,242 per participant, in the top 10% of all filed plans by assets, up 5.1% over the 2024 plan year.

$108M
total plan assets (2024 EOY)
141
covered participants
91st
percentile by assets (of 116,472 plans)
$763,242
avg assets per participant
State
Industry
Finance & Insurance

Defined Benefit (Pension) · DOL Form 5500 · 2024

What the Filing Says About Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.

Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a Defined Benefit (Pension) retirement plan sponsored by Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., headquartered in New York. According to the U.S. Department of Labor's 2024 Form 5500 filing, the plan reports $108M in total end-of-year assets and covers 141 participants across the Finance & Insurance industry. The sponsor's EIN on file with the U.S. Department of Labor is 134973745, and the plan has been effective since 1945-01-01. Its filing status is currently FILING RECEIVED.

Year over year, total assets grew at a solid clip from $102M at the beginning of 2024 to $108M at year-end - up 5.1%. Net assets (after liabilities) closed the year at $108M, with reported net income of $5M 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 Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. has on file with PlainRetire (2022-2024), sponsor-wide plan assets have moved from $1.3B to $1.7B, a gain of 29.6%, while reported participants moved from 3,211 to 3,495 (+8.8%). The strongest year on file by total sponsor assets was 2024 at $1.7B; the softest was 2022 at $1.3B. Year-by-year, sponsor-wide filings show: 2022 - $1.3B in assets across 2 plans covering 3,211 participants; 2023 - $1.5B in assets across 2 plans covering 3,255 participants; 2024 - $1.7B in assets across 2 plans covering 3,495 participants.

By assets, Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. outranks 91% of the 116,472 plans that filed a Form 5500 for the 2024 plan year, and holds roughly 1.1x 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 Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. 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)$102M
Total Assets (End of Year)$108M
Net Assets (End of Year)$108M
Net Income$5M
Plan TypeDefined Benefit (Pension)
Employer EIN134973745
Plan Effective Date1945-01-01
Filing StatusFILING RECEIVED

Sponsor Plan History (Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.)

$1.2B$1.4B$1.6B$1.8B 202220232024 $1.27B $1.65B ▲ +29.9%
Total plan assets by year, all Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. 401(k) plans on file
Year Plans Participants Total Assets
2022 2 3,211 $1.3B
2023 2 3,255 $1.5B
2024 2 3,495 $1.7B

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is in the Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.?
As of the 2024 Form 5500 filing, Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. holds $108M in total assets with 141 participants. It is sponsored by Brown Brothers Harriman & Co..
What type of plan is Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.?
Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is a Defined Benefit (Pension) plan. It has been effective since 1945-01-01. The plan is filed with the U.S. Department of Labor under EIN 134973745.
Who sponsors the Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.?
Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. is sponsored by Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., located in New York. The sponsor's EIN is 134973745 and the plan operates in the Finance & Insurance industry.
How did Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. perform in 2024?
Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. grew at a solid clip - up 5.1% during 2024, moving from $102M to $108M in total assets. Net income was $5M.

What this filing means

Ways to act on Cash Balance Retirement Plan of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.'s numbers.

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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 134973745.

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 2026-07-24.