The National Center for Construction Education and Research Retirement & Savings Plan

• Compliance

  Corrective distributions

  Plan reported corrective distributions (failed ADP/ACP testing).

  Schedule H, line 2g
• Opportunity

  Low returns

  Annual investment return is in the bottom quintile of the peer cohort.

  Schedule H, line 2
• Opportunity

  Few collective trusts

  0% of fund dollars in collective trusts, which often cost less than the same strategy as a mutual fund.

  Schedule H, line 4i
• Informational

  Wind-down / frozen

  Plan appears closed to new enrollment or frozen - balance-holders far exceed active participants, or the plan reports active distributions with no inflows. Exclude from peer benchmarks.

  Lines 6a and 6g
• Informational

  Recently cancelled plan

  Plan reported a final filing / termination within the last year.

  Part I, line B

Industry

61 - Educational Services

Plan type

Defined contribution

Participants

<25

Cohort

8,677 peers

Snapshot

2025

Target-date series: Vanguard Target Retirement, mutual fund, 71% of fund dollars

Covers 71,410 large plans that list their funds in their annual filing. Updated Nov 6, 2026. Shares describe these plans, not the whole market.

• 2A
  Age/service weighted or new comparability plan

  Age/service weighted plan where allocations are based on age service or age and service; or new comparability or similar plan where allocations are based on participant classifications consisting entirely or predominantly of highly compensated employees or the plan provides an additional allocation rate on compensation above a specified threshold that exceeds the permitted disparity limits of Code section 401(l).
• 2E
  Profit-sharing

  Profit-sharing plan.
• 2F
  ERISA section 404(c) plan

  This plan or any part of it is intended to meet the conditions of 29 CFR 2550.404c-1 (shifting investment responsibility to participants).
• 2G
  Total participant-directed account plan

  Participants have the opportunity to direct the investment of all of the assets allocated to their individual accounts regardless of whether 29 CFR 2550.404c-1 is intended to be met.
• 2J
  Code section 401(k) feature

  Cash or deferred arrangement described in Code section 401(k) that is part of a qualified defined contribution plan under which employees may elect to defer part of their compensation or receive these amounts in cash.
• 2K
  Code section 401(m) arrangement

  Employee contributions are allocated to separate accounts under the plan or employer contributions are based in whole or in part on employee deferrals or contributions to the plan. Not applicable to 401(k) plans with only QNECs and/or QMACs or to 403(b)(1) 403(b)(7) or 408 arrangements.
• 2T
  Default investment account

  Total or partial participant-directed account plan where plan uses a default investment account for participants who fail to direct assets in their account.
• 3D
  Pre-approved pension plan

  A master prototype or volume submitter plan that is the subject of a favorable opinion or advisory letter from the IRS.