Hot Topic 401(k) plan

Hot Topic, Inc., City on Industry, CA. EIN 77-0198182. Annual reports 2009–2025.

Hot Topic, Inc. has one active retirement plan on file, the Hot Topic 401(k) Plan, with 10,735 participants and $50.9 million in assets in 2025. Fidelity is its recordkeeper. No traditional pension plan appears in Hot Topic's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 10,735
Plan assets: $50.9 million
401(k) recordkeeper: Fidelity
Plans on file: 1
Industry: Retail

The plan

Hot Topic 401(k) Plan

401(k)Active

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

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 77-0198182
Participants (2025): 10,735
Net assets (2025): $50.9 million
Recordkeeper: FidelityEarlier: John Hancock (2010–2024)
Plan administrator: Hot Topic, Inc.
18305 E. San Joes Avenue
City on Industry, CA 91748
(626) 839-4681As filed for 2025
In effect since: August 1, 1995

Year by year, 2009 to 2025

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2025	10,735	$50.9 million	Fidelity
2024	6,168	$41.9 million	John Hancock
2023	5,955	$35.3 million	John Hancock
2022	5,907	$27.3 million	John Hancock
2021	5,346	$30.7 million	John Hancock
2020	5,400	$24.7 million	John Hancock
2019	5,498	$22.7 million	John Hancock
2018	5,349	$18.6 million	John Hancock
2017	5,065	$20.0 million	John Hancock
2016	4,729	$15.6 million	John Hancock
2015	4,207	$13.7 million	John Hancock
2014	7,667	$14.2 million	John Hancock
2013	5,356	$12.9 million	John Hancock
2012	3,923	$10.1 million	John Hancock
2011	4,202	$8.5 million	John Hancock
2010	4,779	$7.7 million	John Hancock
2009	5,121	$5.8 million	not listed

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Fidelity (fidelity.com), which runs the Hot Topic 401(k) Plan. 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 ((626) 839-4681). That number was filed for 2025; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
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.

The plan

Hot Topic 401(k) Plan

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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