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    SEC Form 11-K filed by Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

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    UNITED STATES

    SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

    Washington, D.C. 20549

     

     

    FORM 11-K

    ANNUAL REPORT

     

     

    (Mark One)

    ☒

    ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

    For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024

    OR

     

    ☐

    TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

    Commission File Number: 333-218913

     

     

    CIBC RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN FOR U.S. EMPLOYEES

    (Full title of the plan)

     

     

    Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

    CIBC Square

    81 Bay Street, Toronto, Ontario

    Canada, M5J 0E7

    (416) 980-2211

    (Name of the issuer of the securities held pursuant to the plan and

    the address of its principal executive office)

     

     
     


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    REQUIRED INFORMATION

     

    Item 4.    The CIBC Retirement Savings Plan for U.S. Employees (the “Plan”) is subject to ERISA and files Plan financial statements prepared in accordance with the financial requirements of ERISA.
       Financial Statements. Listed below are the financial statements filed as a part of the annual report.
       (a) Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the related Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits for the year ended December 31, 2024.
       These Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits as of December 31, 2024 and 2023 and the related Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits for the year ended December 31, 2024, included herein, are hereby incorporated by reference into the Registration Statement on Form S-8 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce on January 25, 2021 (File No. 333-218913) pertaining to the CIBC Retirement Savings Plan for U.S. Employees.


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    REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

         1  

    FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

      

    Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits

         3  

    Statement of Changes in Net Assets Available for Benefits

         4  

    Notes to Financial Statements

      
    1. Description of Plan      5  
    2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies      7  
    3. Fair Value Measurements      8  
    4. Related Party Transactions      9  
    5. Tax Status      9  
    6. Risks and Uncertainties      10  

    SUPPLEMENTAL SCHEDULE

      

    Form 5500, Schedule H, Part IV, Line 4(i) - Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year)

         12  

    SIGNATURES

         13  

    EXHIBIT 23.1

      

     


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    Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

     

    To the Plan Participants and the Plan Administrator of CIBC Retirement Savings Plan for U.S. Employees

    Opinion on the Financial Statements

    We have audited the accompanying statements of net assets available for benefits of CIBC Retirement Savings Plan for U.S. Employees (the Plan) as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the related statement of changes in net assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2024, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the net assets available for benefits of the Plan at December 31, 2024 and 2023, and the changes in its net assets available for benefits for the year ended December 31, 2024, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

    Basis for Opinion

    These financial statements are the responsibility of the Plan’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Plan’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Plan in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

    We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. The Plan is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audits we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Plan’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

    Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

     

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    Supplemental Schedules Required by ERISA

    The accompanying supplemental schedule of assets (held at end of year) as of December 31, 2024 (referred to as the “supplemental schedule”), has been subjected to audit procedures performed in conjunction with the audit of the Plan’s financial statements. The information in the supplemental schedule is the responsibility of the Plan’s management. Our audit procedures included determining whether the information reconciles to the financial statements or the underlying accounting and other records, as applicable, and performing procedures to test the completeness and accuracy of the information presented in the supplemental schedule. In forming our opinion on the information, we evaluated whether such information, including its form and content, is presented in conformity with the Department of Labor’s Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Disclosure under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. In our opinion, the information is fairly stated, in all material respects, in relation to the financial statements as a whole.

     

    /s/ Ernst & Young LLP
    We have served as the Plan’s auditor since 2005.
    Chicago, Illinois
    June 10, 2025

     

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    CIBC RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN FOR U.S. EMPLOYEES

    STATEMENTS OF NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS

    December 31, 2024 and 2023

     

         2024      2023  

    ASSETS

         

    Investments, at fair value

       $ 1,104,311,071      $ 917,994,304  

    Receivables:

         

    Notes receivable from participants

         5,597,603        4,886,855  

    Employer contributions receivable

         6,424,422        5,901,207  

    Participant contributions receivable

         —         1,062,790  
      

     

     

        

     

     

     

    Total receivables

         12,022,025        11,850,852  
      

     

     

        

     

     

     

    NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS

       $ 1,116,333,096      $ 929,845,156  
      

     

     

        

     

     

     

    The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

     

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    CIBC RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN FOR U.S. EMPLOYEES

    STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS

    For the Year Ended December 31, 2024

     

    ADDITIONS TO NET ASSETS ATTRIBUTED TO

      

    Investment income:

      

    Net appreciation in fair value of investments

       $ 124,963,233  

    Interest and dividend income

         25,918,550  
      

     

     

     

    Net investment income

         150,881,783  

    Contributions:

      

    Participants

         52,585,013  

    Employer

         34,194,004  

    Rollover

         11,283,698  
      

     

     

     

    Total contributions

         98,062,715  

    Interest income on notes receivable from participants

         416,093  

    Other additions

         52,730  
      

     

     

     

    Total additions

         249,413,321  
      

     

     

     

    DEDUCTIONS FROM NET ASSETS ATTRIBUTED TO

      

    Benefit payments

         62,616,371  

    Administrative expenses

         271,122  

    Other deductions

         37,888  
      

     

     

     

    Total deductions

         62,925,381  
      

     

     

     

    Net increase

         186,487,940  

    NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS, BEGINNING OF YEAR

         929,845,156  
      

     

     

     

    NET ASSETS AVAILABLE FOR BENEFITS, END OF YEAR

       $ 1,116,333,096  
      

     

     

     

    The accompanying notes are an integral part of the financial statements.

     

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    CIBC RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN FOR U.S. EMPLOYEES

    NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

     

    1. DESCRIPTION OF PLAN

    The following description of the CIBC Retirement Savings Plan for U.S. Employees (the “Plan”) provides only general information. Participants should refer to the Plan document for a more complete description of the Plan’s provisions, copies of which may be obtained from the Plan sponsor.

    General - The Plan is a defined contribution 401(k) profit sharing plan covering all eligible United States employees of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (“CIBC”), the Plan’s sponsor. Employees are eligible to participate in the Plan on the later of attainment of age 18 or the date of hire. The Plan is subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), as amended.

    The Plan is administered by the CIBC U.S. Retirement Savings Plan Committee (“Plan Administrator” or “Committee”). The Committee has overall responsibility for the operation and administration of the plan. Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Company (the “Trustee”) serves as the trustee of the Plan, and together with several investment managers, manages the Plan’s investments.

    Contributions - Each year, plan participants may contribute between 1% and 100% of their eligible earnings on a before tax or after tax basis, subject to Internal Revenue Service limitations. CIBC matches up to 100% of a participant’s contribution up to 6% of the participant’s eligible earnings. Plan benefits are based on eligible earnings, which generally consist of wages, salary, overtime pay, bonuses, and commissions. Contributions from plan participants and the matching contributions from CIBC occur when the eligible earnings are earned by the employees.

    Participants who have attained age 50 before the end of the year are eligible to make catch-up contributions. Participants may also contribute amounts representing distributions from other qualified plans (“rollover contributions”).

    New employees are automatically enrolled, unless they opt-out. A new employee participant’s deferral is set at 3% of eligible earnings and increases 1% at the start of each subsequent Plan year until the rate reaches 10% of eligible cash compensation or is changed by the participant.

    A discretionary contribution may be determined by CIBC as a fixed percentage of a participant’s eligible earnings to be made on behalf of each participant employed on the last day of the applicable Plan year. For the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, CIBC determined that no discretionary contribution would be made to the participants of the Plan. All contributions are subject to certain limitations of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”).

    Participants direct their elective contributions into various investment options offered by the Plan and can change their investment options on a daily basis. Participants who are automatically enrolled have their contributions invested in the applicable lifecycle fund based on their age until they change their election. Employer contributions are invested in the same manner as that of the participant’s elective contributions.

    Vesting - Participants are immediately vested in their contributions and corrective non-elective contributions plus actual earnings thereon. Employer matching and discretionary contributions are subject to a 3-year cliff vesting schedule (years 0-2, 0%; after year 3, 100%).

     

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    CIBC RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN FOR U.S. EMPLOYEES

    NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

     

    Forfeitures - Upon termination of employment, participants forfeit their nonvested balances. Forfeited balances of terminated participant’s nonvested accounts are used to first restore any prior forfeitures required and then to reduce future employer contributions. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, forfeited nonvested accounts totaled $1,468,556 and $832,246, respectively. During the Plan year ended December 31, 2024, forfeitures of $1,353,611 were used to offset employer contributions to the Plan.

    Participant accounts - Individual accounts are maintained for each Plan participant. Each participant’s account is credited with the Plan earnings and contributions made by the participant and CIBC, and charged with an allocation of Plan losses and any benefit distributions and administrative fees and expenses. Allocations are based on participant earnings or account balances, as defined. The benefit to which a participant is entitled is the benefit that can be provided from the participant’s vested account.

    CIBC Stock Fund - The Plan invests in common stock of CIBC through its CIBC Stock Fund. The CIBC Stock Fund may also hold cash or other short-term securities, although these are expected to be a small percentage of the fund.

    Any participant who has access to material non-public information is prohibited from making changes to their CIBC common stock investments at any time while in possession of material non-public information. In addition, participants subject to CIBC-imposed blackout window periods are only permitted to make elections, including making an intra-plan transfer of an existing account balance, into or out of the CIBC stock fund during an open window period, unless CIBC has restricted trading during such window period.

    Each participant is entitled to exercise voting rights attributable to the shares allocated to their account and is notified by CIBC prior to the time that such rights may be exercised. The Trustee is not permitted to vote any allocated shares for which instructions have not been given by a participant. The Trustee votes any unallocated shares in the same proportion as those shares that were allocated, unless the Plan Administrator directs the Trustee otherwise. Participants have the same voting rights in the event of a tender or exchange offer.

    Notes receivable from participants - After one year of service, participants may borrow from their participant accounts up to the lesser of $50,000 or 50% of their vested account balance. The minimum loan amount is $1,000. The loans are secured by the balance in the participant’s account and bear interest at rates commensurate with local prevailing rates as prescribed in the Plan document. Principal and interest are paid ratably through payroll deductions. If a participant terminates employment with CIBC, any outstanding loan will become due and payable on the 60th day following the termination of employment. If the loan is not repaid, it will automatically be treated as a distribution to the participant after 60 days.

    Payment of benefits - After attaining 59-1/2 years of age, a participant may withdraw any portion or all of his/her before tax, CIBC matching or discretionary contribution accounts in that order of priority. Prior to attaining age 59-1/2, an employed participant may withdraw any portion or all of his/her after tax savings account plus earnings or rollover account. Prior to attaining age 59-1/2 employed participants may not withdraw any amount from his/her before tax, CIBC matching or discretionary contribution accounts unless he/she can establish that financial hardship exists as defined in the Plan document, in which case, a participant may request a distribution of his/her before tax account.

     

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    NOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)

     

    Upon termination of employment, a participant (or his/her beneficiary) may receive a distribution of the vested account balance. Lump sum payment will be made on any distributions if the account balance is less than or equal to $1,000. If the account balance is greater than $1,000, the participant (or his/her beneficiary) may elect to receive a lump sum distribution or installment payments over a period that does not extend beyond the life expectancy of the participant (or his/her beneficiary). Effective January 1, 2024, if a participant does not make any election and the vested account balance is greater than $1,000 but less than $7,000 ($5,000 till February 29, 2024), then such amount shall be paid in a direct rollover to an individual retirement plan designated by the Committee.

    Plan Termination - Although it has not expressed any intent to do so, CIBC has the right under the Plan to discontinue its contributions at any time and to terminate the Plan subject to the provisions of ERISA. In the event the Plan terminates, participants will become 100% vested in their accounts.

    2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

    Basis of accounting - The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”) and are presented on the accrual basis of accounting.

    Use of estimates and assumptions - The preparation of financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires the Plan Administrator to make estimates and assumptions that affect certain reported amounts of net assets available for benefits and changes therein at the date of the financial statements. Accordingly, actual results may differ from those estimates.

    Investment valuation and income recognition - The Plan’s investments are stated at fair value. Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date (an exit price). See Note 3 for discussion of fair value measurements.

    The Plan Administrator is responsible for determining the Plan’s valuation policies and analyzing information provided by the investment custodians and issuers that is used to determine the fair value of the Plan’s investments. The Plan Administrator reports to the Audit Committee of CIBC.

    Purchases and sales of securities are recorded on a trade-date basis. Interest income is recorded as earned. Dividends are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Net appreciation (depreciation) includes the Plan’s gains and losses on investments bought and sold as well as held during the year.

    Notes receivable from participants - Notes receivable from participants represent participant loans that are recorded at their unpaid principal balance plus any accrued but unpaid interest. Interest income on notes receivable from participants is recorded when it is earned. Related fees are recorded as administrative expenses and are expensed as incurred. Payments of notes receivable from participants are applied to the outstanding loan balance. If a participant ceases to make loan repayments and the Plan Administrator deems the participant loan to be a distribution, the participant loan balance is reduced and a benefit payment is recorded.

    Benefit Payments - Benefit payments to participants are recorded when paid.

    Administrative expenses - The Plan’s administrative expenses are paid by either the Plan or CIBC, as provided by the Plan’s provisions. Administrative expenses paid by the Plan include recordkeeping,

     

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    trustee fees, and fees relating to notes receivable from participants, if any. Expenses relating to purchases, sales or transfers of the Plan’s investments are charged to the particular investment fund to which the expenses relate. All other administrative expenses of the Plan are paid by CIBC and excluded from these financial statements.

    3. FAIR VALUE MEASUREMENTS

    The Plan measures, monitors and discloses its assets on a fair value basis in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standards Codification 820 (“ASC 820”), Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures. ASC 820 establishes a framework for measuring fair value. That framework provides a fair value hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (Level 3 measurements). The three levels of the fair value hierarchy are described below:

     

    Level 1:

    Inputs to the valuation methodology are unadjusted quoted prices for identical assets or liabilities in active markets that the Plan has the ability to access at the measurement date.

     

    Level 2:

    Inputs to the valuation methodology include:

     

      •  

    Quoted prices for similar assets or liabilities in active markets;

     

      •  

    Quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in inactive markets;

     

      •  

    Inputs other than quoted prices that are observable for the asset or liability;

     

      •  

    Inputs that are derived principally from or corroborated by observable market data by correlation or other means.

     

    Level 3:

    Inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurement.

    The asset’s or liability’s fair value measurement level within the fair value hierarchy is based on the lowest level of any input that is significant to the fair value measurement.

    Following is a description of the valuation methodologies used for assets measured at fair value:

    CIBC common stock - Valued at the closing price reported on the active market on which the security is traded.

    Short-term investment fund - The market value of the fund investment was determined using cost or amortized cost, as applicable. Cost or amortized cost approximates the fair value; however, this value is not obtained from a quoted price in an active market.

    Registered investment companies - Valued at the net asset value (“NAV”) of shares held by the Plan at year-end based on quoted market prices in active markets.

    Common/collective trusts - The Plan holds investments in Common/Collective Trusts (“CCTs”). CCTs publish a daily NAV per unit. The daily NAV is available to participants of the Plan when they log into their online account to view their current balance. CCTs allow participants to make daily redemption requests at the current NAV. The Plan determines that the investments in CCTs have readily determinable fair value because the investments are equity securities in a structure similar to a

     

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    mutual fund in which the fair values per unit are determined and published and are the basis for current transactions.

    The following tables set forth the fair value of the Plan’s assets as of December 31, 2024 and 2023, categorized by level within the fair value hierarchy:

     

         Level 1      Level 2      Level 3      Total  

    December 31, 2024

               

    CIBC stock fund

               

    CIBC common stock

       $ 44,296,867      $ —       $ —       $ 44,296,867  

    Short term investment fund

         —         159,120        —         159,120  

    Registered investment companies

         684,496,907        —         —         684,496,907  

    Common/collective trusts

         375,358,177        —         —         375,358,177  
      

     

     

        

     

     

        

     

     

        

     

     

     

    Total investments, at fair value

       $ 1,104,151,951      $ 159,120      $ —       $ 1,104,311,071  
      

     

     

        

     

     

        

     

     

        

     

     

     
    December 31, 2023            

    CIBC stock fund

               

    CIBC common stock

       $ 35,027,430      $ —       $ —       $ 35,027,430  

    Short term investment fund

         —         118,445        —         118,445  

    Registered investment companies

         573,561,384        —         —         573,561,384  

    Common/collective trusts

         309,287,045        —         —         309,287,045  
      

     

     

        

     

     

        

     

     

        

     

     

     

    Total investments, at fair value

       $ 917,875,859      $ 118,445      $ —       $ 917,994,304  
      

     

     

        

     

     

        

     

     

        

     

     

     

    There were no Level 3 assets and no movements between levels for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.

    4. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

    Certain Plan investments are shares of mutual funds managed by the Trustee or its affiliates, therefore, these transactions qualify as permitted party-in-interest transactions. The Plan also invests in the CIBC stock fund which also qualifies as permitted party-in-interest transactions.

    Certain officers and employees of the Plan’s sponsor (who may also be participants in the Plan) performed administrative services related to the Plan’s operation, record keeping and financial reporting. The Plan’s sponsor paid these individuals’ salaries and also paid all other administrative expenses on the Plan’s behalf.

    The foregoing transactions were not deemed prohibited party-in-interest transactions, because they were covered by statutory and administrative exemptions from the Code and ERISA’s rules on prohibited transactions.

    5. TAX STATUS

    The Plan has received a determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) dated August 03, 2017, stating that the Plan is qualified under Section 401(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (the “Code”),

     

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    and, therefore, the related trust is exempt from taxation. Subsequent to this determination by the IRS, the Plan was amended and restated. Once qualified, the Plan is required to operate in conformity with the Code to maintain its qualified status. The Plan Administrator believes the Plan is being operated in compliance with the applicable requirements of the Code and, therefore, believes the Plan, as amended and restated, is qualified and the related trust is tax-exempt.

    Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States require plan management to evaluate tax positions taken by the Plan and recognize a tax liability if the Plan has taken an uncertain position that more likely than not would not be sustained upon examination by the IRS. Plan management has analyzed the tax positions taken by the Plan and has concluded that there are no uncertain positions taken or expected to be taken. The Plan is subject to routine audits by taxing jurisdictions; however, there are currently no audits for any tax periods in progress.

    6. RISKS AND UNCERTAINTIES

    The Plan invests in various investment securities based primarily on elections made by participants. Investment securities, in general, are exposed to various risks, such as interest rate, credit, and overall market volatility risks. Due to the level of risk associated with certain investment securities, it is reasonably possible that changes in value of investment securities will occur in the near term and that such changes would materially affect participants’ account balances and the amounts reported in the statements of net assets available for benefits.

     

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    SUPPLEMENTAL SCHEDULE

     

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    CIBC RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN FOR U.S. EMPLOYEES

    FORM 5500, SCHEDULE H, PART IV, LINE 4(i)

    SCHEDULE OF ASSETS (HELD AT END OF YEAR)

    December 31, 2024

    EIN: 13-1942440

    Plan Number: 006

     

    (a)

      

    (b)

    Identity of issue, borrower, lessor or similar party

       (c)
    Description of investment including
    shares, or rate of interest
       (e)
    Current Value
     
      

    Registered investment companies:

            
      

    AMG TimesSquare Mid Cap Growth Fund

         855,241     

    shares

       $ 14,607,513  
      

    American Funds EuroPacific Growth Fund

         397,898     

    shares

         21,375,107  
      

    Calvert Balanced Fund

         8,473     

    shares

         385,871  
      

    Cohen & Steers Realty Shares Fund

         115,461     

    shares

         7,608,884  
      

    DFA US Targeted Value Portfolio

         291,001     

    shares

         10,001,717  
      

    Dodge & Cox Stock Fund

         313,348     

    shares

         80,586,804  
      

    Fidelity Emerging Markets Fund

         356,173     

    shares

         13,563,050  
      

    JPMorgan Large Cap Growth Fund

         1,217,448     

    shares

         101,949,104  
      

    Loomis Sayles Small Cap Growth Fund

         306,665     

    shares

         9,095,678  
      

    Nuveen Core Impact Bond Fund

         72,654     

    shares

         642,985  
      

    Parnassus Core Equity Fund

         42,373     

    shares

         2,531,781  
    *   

    Vanguard Cash Reserves Federal MM Fund Admiral Shares

         43,758,225     

    shares

         43,758,225  
    *   

    Vanguard High-Yield Corporate Fund Admiral Shares

         2,241,481     

    shares

         12,148,827  
    *   

    Vanguard Institutional Index Fund Instl Plus Shares

         464,906     

    shares

         222,634,125  
    *   

    Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund Institutional Shares

         486,571     

    shares

         35,135,303  
    *   

    Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund Institutional Shares

         388,885     

    shares

         44,780,052  
    *   

    Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund

         2,972,060     

    shares

         28,175,130  
    *   

    Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund

         173,934     

    shares

         22,040,960  
      

    Victory Sycamore Est Value Fund

         293,016     

    shares

         13,475,791  
               

     

     

     
      

    Total Registered investment companies

               684,496,907  
               

     

     

     
      

    CIBC stock fund:

            
    *   

    CIBC stock

         700,567     

    shares

         44,296,867  
    *   

    NT Collective Short Term Invt FD

         159,120     

    shares

         159,120  
               

     

     

     
      

    Total CIBC stock fund

               44,455,987  
               

     

     

     
      

    Common/collective trusts:

            
    *   

    Vanguard Target Retirement 2020 Trust I

         150,945     

    shares

         11,415,935  
    *   

    Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 Trust I

         394,354     

    shares

         31,642,996  
    *   

    Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Trust I

         639,035     

    shares

         53,774,821  
    *   

    Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 Trust I

         529,637     

    shares

         47,344,252  
    *   

    Vanguard Target Retirement 2040 Trust I

         514,738     

    shares

         49,291,355  
    *   

    Vanguard Target Retirement 2045 Trust I

         478,015     

    shares

         47,681,992  
    *   

    Vanguard Target Retirement 2050 Trust I

         480,283     

    shares

         48,926,382  
    *   

    Vanguard Target Retirement 2055 Trust I

         204,855     

    shares

         25,443,048  
    *   

    Vanguard Target Retirement 2060 Trust I

         384,820     

    shares

         25,117,190  
    *   

    Vanguard Target Retirement 2065 Trust I

         220,961     

    shares

         8,871,575  
    *   

    Vanguard Target Retirement 2070 Trust I

         15,080     

    shares

         369,162  
    *   

    Vanguard Target Retirement Income Trust I

         81,225     

    shares

         5,520,849  
    *   

    Vanguard Target Retirement Income and Growth Trust I

         8,222     

    shares

         184,574  
    *   

    Vanguard Retirement Savings Trust III

         11,002,021     

    shares

         11,002,021  
      

    Prudential Core Plus Bond Fund

         47,121     

    shares

         8,772,025  
               

     

     

     
      

    Total Common/collective trusts

               375,358,177  
               

     

     

     
    *   

    Notes receivable from participants

         Interest rates range from 4.25% to 9.50%      5,597,603  
               

     

     

     
      

    Total

             $ 1,109,908,674  
               

     

     

     

     

    *

    Permitted party-in-interest as defined by ERISA.

    Note: Cost information is not required for participant directed investments, and therefore was not included.

     

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    Table of Contents

    SIGNATURES

    The Plan. Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the trustees (or other persons who administer the Plan) have duly caused this annual report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

    Dated: June 10, 2025

     

    CIBC RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN FOR U.S. EMPLOYEES

    By:

     

    CIBC Retirement Savings Plan for U.S. Employees

    By:   /s/ Jaime Canaday

    Name:

     

    Jaime Canaday

    Title:

     

    Executive Director U.S. Benefits Policy

    EXHIBIT INDEX

     

    Exhibit No.   

    Description

    23.1    Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

     

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