DWS
advisor10 known aliases resolved via the canonical alias map
Market position · 2024
Plans served9-2 YoYRank #1955 of mapped providers
Assets under administration$5.3B0.0%Market share · rank #1872
Fees received$268,223Median $0/planSum across Schedule C direct + indirect
Net wins YoY-31 won · 4 lostPlan-level switch detection
Plans served · 5-year trajectory
Market-share plans percent annotated. Bar height is raw plan count.
Customer-base shape
What does a typical DWS plan look like?
Service mix · median fees per plan
Count of plans where DWS ships each service code, and the median compensation they report under it.
| Service | Plans | Median fees | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|
Shareholder servicing fees; Investment managementCode 28 | 8 | $0 | |
Shareholder servicing fees; Sub-transfer agency feesCode 59 | 1 | $0 |
Competitor overlap
Percent of DWS's plans that also list each competitor on Schedule C. High numbers = co-living partners; low numbers = direct displacement targets.
Plans won in 2024
Appeared this year; did not appear last year under DWS.
| Sponsor | From | Assets |
|---|---|---|
POLYMER TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS, INC.IN · 351895358-001 | T. Rowe Price | $26M |
Plans lost in 2024
Appeared last year under DWS; not this year.
| Sponsor | To | Assets |
|---|---|---|
ASSOC OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY INCVA · 530193361-002 | Metzler Locricchio Serra & Co PC | $22M |
HIGH COUNTRY BEVERAGE CORPORATIONCO · 841341843-001 | LPL Financial | $17M |
Top plans by assets
Searchable full list lands with the commercial layer.
| Plan | Assets | Participants | Fees | Tenure | Flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
TRAVELERS COMPANIES, INC.MN · 410518860-001 | $4.2B | 45,786 | $262,431 | 7y | - |
UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGOCA · 952544535-003 | $797M | 5,108 | $0 | 2y | - |
PLUMBERS LOCAL NO. 8 PENSION PLANMO · 446010180-001 | $123M | 1,266 | $5,792 | 1y | - |
AHRESTY WILMINGTON CORPORATIONOH · 311238304-001 | $34M | 670 | $0 | 7y | - |
POLYMER TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS, INC.IN · 351895358-001 | $26M | 257 | $0 | 1y | - |
CHANNELL COMMERCIAL CORPORATIONTX · 952453261-001 | $17M | 816 | $0 | 5y | - |
METLIFE LEGAL PLANS, INC.OH · 341650967-333 | $17M | 323 | $0 | 6y | - |
DAVIS TOOL, INC.OR · 930774431-001 | $12M | 204 | $0 | 10y | - |
LORAIN COUNTY COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCYOH · 340968029-001 | $4M | 404 | $0 | 2y | - |
Flag exposure
55.6%Market: 89.1%
This provider
Market baseline
Share of this provider's plans tripping any deterministic red flag this year. Lower than market baseline = better risk surface.
Aliases resolved (10)
Raw Schedule C names collapsed into DWS.
- BUCHANAN INGERSOLL & ROONEY, P.C.
- BUCHANAN, INGERSOLL & ROONEY, P.C.
- DWS
- DWS DISTRIBUTORS, INC.
- DWS FUNDS
- DWS INVESTMENT AMERICAS INC
- DWS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AMERICAS
- DWS INVESTMENTS
- DWS INVESTMENTS FUNDS
- DWS RREEF REAL EST SECS S
Book composition by plan size
Bars stack to total plans served; segments use the same asset cutoffs as the /plans size filter. Up-and-to-the-right on the bigger segments = moving up-market.
Under $5M$5-50M$50-250M$250M-1B$1B+
Compliance posture vs market
Per-flag share for DWS's book against the same flag's overall prevalence across all filings. Negative delta = under-indexed (cleaner book); positive = elevated risk surface.
| Flag | Plans flagged | Provider % | Market % | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Recently terminated | 0 | 0.00% | 7.76% | -7.76 pp |
| Fidelity bond gap | 0 | 0.00% | 26.94% | -26.94 pp |
| Late contributions | 0 | 0.00% | 1.71% | -1.71 pp |
| Failed to provide benefit | 0 | 0.00% | 0.14% | -0.14 pp |
| Corrective distributions | 0 | 0.00% | 1.76% | -1.76 pp |
| Loss discovered | 0 | 0.00% | 0.00% | -0.00 pp |
New-plan formation share
Share of plans filing for the first time each year that landed with DWS. Compare to the incumbent market share (0.0%) - higher = winning new business, lower = coasting on existing relationships.
0.0%-0.0 pp vs incumbent
Frequent partners by role
Who else shows up on DWS's plans most often. Switch tabs by counterparty role - high-overlap names are either referral channels (advisors, auditors) or competitive blocks (other recordkeepers).
| Partner | Shared plans | % of book |
|---|---|---|
| Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP | 1 | 11.1% |
| Spencer Fane | 1 | 11.1% |