Plan termination report · Form 5500 data
What happened to the GUNDERSON DETTMER STOUGH VILLENEUVE FRANKLIN & HACHIGIAN, LLP 401(k)?
GUNDERSON DETTMER STOUGH VILLENEUVE FRANKLIN & HACHIGIAN, LLP closed out its retirement plan: the plan's final Form 5500 — the annual report every plan files with the U.S. Department of Labor — was filed for 2025, and the plan's assets were distributed to participants. If you had money in the plan, that money moved. This page explains what a plan termination means and what your options are, using the actual figures from the filing.
Final filing year
2025
Distributed
$80M
Participants
127
Avg per participant
$630K
Plan: GUNDERSON DETTMER STOUGH VILLENEUVE FRANKLIN & HACHIGIAN, LLP RETIREMENT PLAN FOR PARTNERS · REDWOOD CITY, CA
What happens when a 401(k) plan terminates?
When an employer ends a retirement plan — because the company closed, was acquired, went through bankruptcy, or simply wound the plan down — every participant becomes 100% vested and the plan must pay out all balances. Participants receive notices asking where to send their money: roll it to an IRA, roll it to a new employer’s plan, or take a cash distribution.
What if I never responded to the termination notices?
Balances of participants who don’t respond are typically moved automatically into a "safe harbor" IRA opened in the participant’s name at a custodian the plan chose. These accounts are usually invested in cash or money-market funds and charge maintenance fees — money parked there often grows slowly or shrinks. If you ignored the letters, your money may be sitting in an account you’ve never looked at. You can search for it via the plan’s termination notices, old statements, or the Department of Labor’s abandoned plan search.
What are my options now?
Money that came out of a terminated plan can generally: (1) stay where it landed — for example in a safe-harbor IRA — though it’s worth checking the fees and how it’s invested; (2) be rolled into your current employer’s retirement plan, if that plan accepts roll-ins; (3) be rolled into an IRA you choose, which keeps it tax-deferred; or (4) be taken as cash, which is generally taxable and may carry a 10% early-withdrawal penalty before age 59½. Direct trustee-to-trustee rollovers avoid the 60-day deadline and tax withholding that apply when a check is made out to you personally. Each option has trade-offs; none is right for everyone.
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