Trusted Media Brands 401(k) and pension plans

Trusted Media Brands, Inc., New York, NY. EIN 13-1726769. Annual reports 2009–2024. Also filed as The Readers Digest Association, Inc.; The Reader'S Digest Association, Inc.

Trusted Media Brands, Inc. has one active retirement plan on file, the The 401(k) Partnership of Trusted Media Brands, Inc., with 1,075 participants and $142 million in assets in 2024. Vanguard has been its recordkeeper since 2009.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 1,075
Plan assets: $142 million
401(k) recordkeeper: Vanguard
Plans on file: 3
Industry: Information and media

All 3 plans

Active plans first

The 401(k) Partnership of Trusted Media Brands, Inc.

401(k)Active

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 001Employer EIN 13-1726769
Participants (2024): 1,075
Net assets (2024): $142 million
Recordkeeper: Vanguard2009–2024
Plan administrator: Employee Benefits Committee
485 Lexington Avenue, 7TH Floor
New York, NY 10017
(914) 238-1000As filed for 2024
In effect since: January 1, 1963

Earlier sponsor: The Readers Digest Association, Inc. (2009–2013).

Earlier plan names: The 401(k) Partnership of the Readers Digest Association, Inc.; The 401(k) Partnership of the Reader'S Digest Association, Inc.; The 401(k) Partnership of Trusted Media Brands, in C..

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	1,075	$142 million	Vanguard
2023	1,175	$138 million	Vanguard
2022	1,279	$123 million	Vanguard
2021	1,085	$150 million	Vanguard
2020	1,081	$141 million	Vanguard
2019	1,104	$133 million	Vanguard
2018	1,161	$118 million	Vanguard
2017	1,183	$131 million	Vanguard
2016	1,217	$116 million	Vanguard
2015	1,231	$116 million	Vanguard
2014	1,274	$120 million	Vanguard
2013	1,413	$126 million	Vanguard
2012	1,656	$116 million	Vanguard
2011	2,250	$133 million	Vanguard
2010	2,054	$146 million	Vanguard
2009	2,061	$135 million	Vanguard

Trusted Media Brands Inc. Cash Balance Plan

Cash balance pensionClosed

Closed. The plan filed its final annual report for 2023, which means its assets were paid out or moved and it no longer exists.

Plan number: 003Employer EIN 13-1726769
Participants (2022): 797
Net assets (2022): $49.3 million
Administered by: Transamerica2022
Plan administrator: Trusted Media Brands, Inc.
485 Lexington Avenue, 9TH Floor
New York, NY 10017
(914) 238-1000As filed for 2023
In effect since: May 1, 2015

Plans merged into this one: The Readers Digest Association,inc. Retirement Plan (2015).

Earlier plan names: The Reader'S Digest Association, Inc. Pension Plan; Trusted Media Brands, Inc. Cash Balance Plan.

Year by year, 2014 to 2023

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2023	0	$0	not listed
2022	797	$49.3 million	Transamerica
2021	699	$56.2 million	not listed
2020	516	$51.5 million	not listed
2019	505	$49.0 million	not listed
2018	477	$44.6 million	not listed
2017	450	$48.9 million	not listed
2016	431	$44.6 million	not listed
2015	426	$44.9 million	not listed
2014	0	$0	not listed

The Readers Digest Association,inc. Retirement Plan

Cash balance pensionMerged

Merged. In 2015 its assets moved to the The Reader'S Digest Association, Inc. Pension Plan, sponsored by Trusted Media Brands, Inc. (EIN 13-1726769, plan 003). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 002Employer EIN 13-1726769
Participants (2014): 1,335
Net assets (2014): $284 million
Plan administrator: Trusted Media Brands, Inc.
750 3RD Avenue, 3RD Floor
New York, NY 10017
(914) 238-1000As filed for 2015
In effect since: November 1, 1953

Earlier sponsor: The Readers Digest Association, Inc. (2009–2013).

Earlier plan names: The Readers Digest Association, Inc. Retirement Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2015

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2015	0	$0	not listed
2014	1,335	$284 million	not listed
2013	3,926	$636 million	not listed
2012	4,000	$583 million	not listed
2011	4,142	$554 million	not listed
2010	4,305	$572 million	not listed
2009	4,466	$521 million	not listed

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Vanguard (investor.vanguard.com), which runs the The 401(k) Partnership of Trusted Media Brands, Inc.. 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 ((914) 238-1000). That number was filed for 2024; 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.
If your plan closed, unclaimed balances usually went to an IRA in your name, to the PBGC's missing participants program, or to state unclaimed property. Here is how to check each 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.