Populus Group 401(k) plan

Populus Group LLC, Troy, MI. EIN 38-3659021. Annual reports 2009–2025.

Populus Group LLC has one active retirement plan on file, the Populus Group, LLC 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan and Trust, with 8,624 participants and $148 million in assets in 2025. Principal has been its recordkeeper since 2020. No traditional pension plan appears in Populus Group's filings since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 8,624
Plan assets: $148 million
401(k) recordkeeper: Principal
Plans on file: 1
Industry: Business services

The plan

Populus Group, LLC 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan and Trust

401(k)Active

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

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 38-3659021
Participants (2025): 8,624
Net assets (2025): $148 million
Recordkeeper: PrincipalEarlier: Wells Fargo (2015–2019), Paychex (2013), Merrill (2010–2012)
Plan administrator: Populus Group LLC
3001 West Big Beaver Road, Ste 608
Troy, MI 48084
(248) 712-7900As filed for 2025
In effect since: November 13, 2002

Earlier plan names: Populus Group LLC 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan & Trust; Populus Group LLC 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan and Trust; Populus Group LLC 401(k) PSP and Trust.

Year by year, 2009 to 2025

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2025	8,624	$148 million	Principal
2024	8,701	$125 million	Principal
2023	8,026	$109 million	Principal
2022	8,577	$87.3 million	Principal
2021	9,763	$97.5 million	Principal
2020	10,380	$79.1 million	Principal
2019	14,457	$57.7 million	Wells Fargo
2018	13,118	$40.7 million	Wells Fargo
2017	10,786	$32.8 million	Wells Fargo
2016	6,323	$23.3 million	Wells Fargo
2015	5,520	$17.3 million	Wells Fargo
2014	4,317	$13.8 million	not listed
2013	4,411	$11.1 million	Paychex
2012	4,369	$7.9 million	Merrill
2011	3,722	$5.4 million	not listed
2010	2,014	$3.4 million	Merrill
2009	1,123	$1.8 million	not listed

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Principal (principal.com), which runs the Populus Group, LLC 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan and Trust. 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 ((248) 712-7900). 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

Populus Group, LLC 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan and Trust

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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