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American 401k offers an open-architecture investment platform of mutual funds, ETFs, CITs, and individual securities.   

  • Our retirement plan operations have been servicing businesses for over 35 years

  • Businesses 1 – 1,000 employees

OUR PARTNERS

MML Investors Services, LLC® (MML) is a subsidiary of MassMutual. MML, in its capacity as a registered Broker-Dealer with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), and member of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), is one of the nation’s largest independent broker-dealership and a leading registered investment advisory firms offering investment products, wealth management services, and retirement plan programs.  MML, founded in 1981, currently employs over 8,000 knowledgeable investment advisors, nationally. 

Your plan will be supported by individuals who hold the designations of Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF®) and Chartered Retirement Plan Specialist (CRPS®).

Accredited Investment Fiduciary® (AIF®) designees can demonstrate that they have met educational, competence, and conduct and ethical standards to carry out a fiduciary standard of care and serve the best interests of their clients. Please visit Fi360 to learn more about an AIF.

Chartered Retirement Plan Specialist (CRPS®) is the industry-benchmark for credentials related to retirement plan creation & maintenance. A CRPS® designee has specialty knowledge to recommend implementation techniques that can be executed into well-structured, company-appropriate retirement plans.


American Trust Custody (ATC), formerly Mid Atlantic Trust Company, is the custodian for all plan assets and transactions of American 401k. With a commitment to providing the best services in the industry, American Trust Custody offers a wide range of services to its over 200 industry partners. ATC’s state-of-the-art trading and reporting systems integrate directly into your recordkeeping or trust accounting system, allowing fully electronic processing, settlement, and reporting of trades and transactions. 

  • Recordkeepers and third party administrators rely on ATC as one the nation’s largest for trust, custody, participant distribution, and/or clearing and settlement services for over 100,000 retirement plans and trust accounts.

  • Through their extensive relationships with mutual fund families and exchange-traded fund providers, and as an NSCC self-clearing member, ATC offers access to over 23,000 mutual funds from 450 different issuers and nearly 1,100 ETFs from 70 various providers.

  • Along with AmericanTCS affiliates, American Trust Custody offers the ability for sub-advised CITs with your investment strategy, at an extremely competitive price point.

  • American Trust Custody, with a history of over 40 years, is a part of EdgeCo Holdings, LP (“EdgeCo”), headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA.

  • American Trust Custody clears and settles over 9 million trades per month on behalf of administrators, trust, and investment company customers. As a result, when doing business with American Trust Custody, you will have the peace of mind knowing that you are trading with one of the NSCC’s largest mutual fund trade processors.

PB&H Benefits, LLC. (PB&H) is the Administrator (TPA) and record keeper of American 401k. PB&H Benefits is a subsidiary of Pattillo, Brown & Hill, LLP, one of the oldest and most respected accounting firms in Central Texas. With multiple office locations and experienced professionals, PB&H has been a nationally prominent provider of financial services in the business community for over 100 years since 1923!

PB&H assists clients with customized plan design and administration that is most beneficial in meeting the goals of your business. Their retirement professionals have the technical expertise and resources for all aspects of plan design, implementation and ongoing plan operation. PB&H’s primary point of contact client service technique guarantees the personalized service your firm deserves.

As a client-focused consulting and administrative services firm, PB&H honors a commitment to quality and access to expertise in all areas of retirement benefits and accounting. PB&H’s services cover a wide array of retirement and flexible benefit plans, including:

  • 401k Plans

  • Profit Sharing Plans: Traditional, Age Weighted, Integrated and New Comparability (With Employee Classes)

  • 403(b) Plans: ERISA & Non-ERISA

  • Safe Harbor 401k Plans

  • Solo k (Owner-Only 401k Plans)

  • Cash Balance Pension Plans

PB&H is a member of leading employee benefits associations. Their benefits professionals hold membership and credentials through the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries (ASPPA) and combined memberships include National Institute of Pension Administrators (NIPA), The American Institute of Certified Public Accounts (AICPA), Rotary International, and the Texas Society Human Resource Managers (SHRM). In addition to their professional affiliations, PB&H Benefits professionals are Leadership Waco graduates and are active in the community, serving as volunteers and board members.

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CONNECTING WITH YOUR EMPLOYEES

We believe in the future financial wellness of your employees.

When you rely our full-service retirement plan solutions, you gain a lot more than just Plan Sponsor and participant online access. We stay by your side during implementation and ongoing as your full-time retirement specialist concierge team.

For your employees - your most valuable asset - we are also very different than other providers. We don’t simply send individuals to a website with best wishes for online enrollment. Instead, we offer:

⦿ Easy Enrollment: Employees have both options, online enrollment or via a user-friendly form.

⦿ Higher Deferral Rates: Our team is dedicated to engaging your employees in group and 1-on-1 settings, inspiring them to save, a little at a time. 

⦿ Enrollment Meetings: In-person or by WebEx.

⦿ Motivation: As experienced advisors, we are educators and motivators. The most essential feature of any 401k is the perception of your benefit among employees, and this begins with our quality advisory services.

⦿ Higher Participation: Supporting and captivating employees, through our standard of educational excellence, empowers participation and investing that enriches lives.

 
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We are unshakable in our commitment to helping others in need.

Giving back is a cornerstone of our culture.  We enjoy connection to the communities around us through our volunteerism: delivering meaningful financial education in high schools, teaching effective financial literacy to students of all ages, and building schools and community centers for financially underprivileged families.

We are dedicated to initiatives that make a positive social impact.  One long standing partner is an organization that promotes trauma recovery and family reunification in a nurturing and healing environment through a quality educational program.

We have 30+ years of devotion tackling hunger and supporting the continuance of education for children with household food insecurity and those in special urgency at times of crisis.

We support several non-profit organizations that manage constructive and cooperative environmental impact projects for the good of the planet.  Daily, we make positive decisions that reduce our ecological footprint.