General Re 401(k) and pension plans

General Re Corporation, Stamford, CT. EIN 06-1026471. Annual reports 2009–2025. Also filed as General Re Corp.; General Re. Corp.

General Re Corporation has one active retirement plan on file, the Employee Savings and Stock Ownership Plan of General Re Corp and Its Domestic Subsidiaries, with 1,884 participants and $1.7 billion in assets in 2025. Fidelity has been its recordkeeper since 2011.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 1,884
Plan assets: $1.7 billion
401(k) recordkeeper: Fidelity
Plans on file: 2
Industry: Finance and insurance

All 2 plans

Active plans first

Employee Savings and Stock Ownership Plan of General Re Corp and Its Domestic Subsidiaries

401(k) with ESOPActive

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2025 plan year.

Plan number: 002Employer EIN 06-1026471
Participants (2025): 1,884
Net assets (2025): $1.7 billion
Recordkeeper: Fidelity2011–2024
Plan administrator: General Re Corporation
400 Atlantic Street, 9TH Floor
Stamford, CT 06901
(203) 328-5000As filed for 2025
In effect since: July 1, 1969

Earlier plan names: Employee Savings & Stock Ownership Plan of General Re Corp.; Employee Savings and Stock Ownership Plan of General Re Corporation and Its Domestic Subsidiaries; General Re Corporation and Government Employees Companies Savings and Stock Ownership Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2025

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2025	1,884	$1.7 billion	not listed
2024	1,888	$1.6 billion	Fidelity
2023	1,876	$1.4 billion	Fidelity
2022	1,859	$1.2 billion	Fidelity
2021	1,815	$1.4 billion	Fidelity
2020	1,824	$1.3 billion	Fidelity
2019	34,047	$1.6 billion	Fidelity
2018	31,237	$1.5 billion	not listed
2017	34,107	$1.5 billion	Fidelity
2016	2,025	$1.3 billion	Fidelity
2015	2,112	$1.2 billion	Fidelity
2014	2,188	$1.3 billion	Fidelity
2013	2,222	$1.2 billion	Fidelity
2012	2,190	$942 million	Fidelity
2011	2,230	$844 million	Fidelity
2010	2,304	$886 million	not listed
2009	2,388	$752 million	not listed

Employee Retirement Plan of General Re Corporation and Its Affiliates

Pension (defined benefit), frozenMerged

Merged. In 2017 its assets moved to the Berkshire Hathaway Consolidated Pension Plan, sponsored by Berkshire Hathaway Credit Corporation (EIN 45-5344990, plan 003). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 06-1026471
Participants (2016): 2,426
Net assets (2016): $424 million
Plan administrator: General Re. Corp.
120 Long Ridge Road
Stamford, CT 06902
(203) 328-5000As filed for 2017
In effect since: September 1, 1944

Year by year, 2009 to 2017

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2017	0	$0	not listed
2016	2,426	$424 million	not listed
2015	2,464	$389 million	not listed
2014	2,521	$430 million	not listed
2013	2,567	$407 million	not listed
2012	2,619	$375 million	not listed
2011	2,659	$350 million	not listed
2010	2,715	$350 million	not listed
2009	2,796	$320 million	not listed

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Fidelity (fidelity.com), which runs the Employee Savings and Stock Ownership Plan of General Re Corp and Its Domestic Subsidiaries. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((203) 328-5000). That number was filed for 2025; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan was merged, your account moved with it. Follow the link on the plan to the plan it went into, and contact that one.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.

All 2 plans

Employee Savings and Stock Ownership Plan of General Re Corp and Its Domestic Subsidiaries

Employee Retirement Plan of General Re Corporation and Its Affiliates

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

Other finance and insurance employers in CT