CBNJ Cape Bancorp, Inc.

Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2015 and 2014

The following description of Cape Bank Employees’ Savings & Profit Sharing Plan (the Plan) provides only general information. Participants should refer to the Plan document for a more complete description of the Plan’s provisions.

The Plan was established on November 1, 2007 and is a defined contribution plan covering all full-time employees of Cape Bank (“Bank”) who have completed three months of service and are age twenty one or older. Participants are eligible to receive employer contributions upon completion of one year of service. The Plan is subject to the provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Cape Bancorp, Inc.

Each year, participants may contribute up to 100% of pretax annual compensation, as defined in the Plan document and subject to certain limitations. Participants who have attained age 50 by the close of the Plan year are also eligible to make catch-up contributions under Internal Revenue Code Section 414(v). Participants may also contribute amounts representing distributions from other qualified defined benefit or defined contribution plans. The Plan also allows for Roth Deferrals by participants. Contributions are subject to certain limitations.

The Plan also includes a discretionary employer match option. Additional profit sharing amounts may be contributed at the option of the Bank’s board of directors. In 2015 and 2014, the Bank contributed 100% of the first 3% and 50% for the next 2%, and 100% of the first 2%, respectively, of eligible compensation that participants contributed to the Plan. There were no profit sharing contributions in 2015 or 2014.

Effective April 1, 2015, the Plan was amended to change certain contribution criteria. Participants eligible for the matching contribution includes all active participants on the last day of the Plan year. Participants eligible for contributions other than matching contributions, are active participants on the last day of the Plan year with at least 1,000 hours of service during the latest accrual computation portion ending on or before that date. Effective April 1, 2015, the Plan was also amended to include Colonial Bank employees as eligible participants under the Plan.

Effective September 1, 2015, the Plan was amended to include an automatic contribution arrangement provision to the plan which automatically enrolls participants into the retirement plan and set the participant salary deferral rate at 4%, unless the participant elects a different salary deferral rate.

On September 21, 2016 and effective for the 2016 Plan year, the Plan was amended to return to a safe harbor Plan. The Bank will match 100% of the first 3% of a participant’s contribution, plus an additional 50% of the next 2%.

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Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2015 and 2014

Each participant’s account is credited with the participant’s contributions and an allocation of (a) the Bank’s contributions, b) Plan earnings, and charged with an allocation of administrative expenses that are paid by the Plan, and is charged with his or her withdrawals. Allocations are based on participant earnings or account balances, as defined, or specific participant transactions. The benefit to which a participant is entitled is the benefit that can be provided from the participant’s vested account. Each participant directs the investment of his or her account to any of the investment options available under the Plan.

A participant is entitled to 100% of his or her account balance upon retirement, death or disability.

Participants are immediately 100% vested in their contributions plus actual earnings, plus all employer matching and profit sharing contributions thereon.

On termination of service due to death, disability, retirement, or other termination of employment, a participant or their estate may elect to receive a lump-sum amount, installment payments or distributions in kind of Cape Bancorp, Inc. stock equal to the value of the participant’s vested interest in his or her account.

Participants may borrow from their accounts a minimum of $1,000 up to a maximum of $50,000 or 50% of their vested account balance, whichever is less. Loan transactions are treated as a transfer to (from) the investment account from (to) notes receivable from participants. The loans are secured by the balance in the participant’s account and bear interest at rates that are commensurate with local prevailing rates as determined monthly by the Plan administrator and all loans were 4.25% at December 31, 2015. The maximum duration of a loan is five years unless the loan is used to purchase a primary residence. Principal and interest are paid through payroll deductions.

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Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2015 and 2014

The financial statements of the Plan are prepared on the accrual basis of accounting.

Investments held by a defined contribution plan are required to be reported at fair value, except for fully benefit-responsive investment contracts. Contract value is the relevant measure for the portion of the net assets available for benefits of a defined contribution plan attributable to fully benefit-responsive investment contracts because contract value is the amount participants normally would receive if they were to initiate permitted transactions under the terms of the Plan.

Investments are reported at fair value (except for fully benefit-responsive investment contracts, which are reported at contract value). Fair value is 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. The Plan’s Benefit Committee determines the Plan’s valuation policies utilizing information provided by the investment advisors, trustee, and insurance companies. See Note 3 for discussion of fair value measurements.

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

Benefits are recorded when paid.

The preparation of financial statements in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and changes therein, and disclosures of contingent assets and liabilities. Actual results could differ from those estimates.

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Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2015 and 2014

The Plan holds various investment securities. Investment securities are exposed to various risks such as interest rate, market, liquidity and credit risks. Due to the level of risk associated with certain investment securities and the sensitivity of certain fair value estimates to changes in valuation assumptions, it is at least reasonably possible that changes in the fair values of investment securities will occur in the near term and that such changes could materially affect participants’ account balances and the amounts reported in the Statements of Net Assets Available for Benefits.

Notes receivable from participants are measured at their unpaid principal balance plus any accrued but unpaid interest. Delinquent notes receivable are recorded as distributions based upon the terms of the Plan document. Related fees are recorded as administrative expenses and are expensed when they are incurred. Interest income is recorded on the accrual basis. No allowance for credit losses has been recorded as of December 31, 2015 and 2014.

Certain expenses of maintaining the Plan are paid by the Plan, unless otherwise paid by the Bank. Expenses that are paid by the Bank are excluded from these financial statements. Fees related to the administration of notes receivable from participants are charged directly to the participant’s account and are included in administrative expenses. Investment related expenses are included in net appreciation of fair value of investments.

The following table reflects concentrations of individual issues within the plan that were equal to or greater than 10% of the total plan assets:

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Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2015 and 2014

In May 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2015-07, Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosures for Investments in Certain Entities That Calculate Net Asset Value per Share (or Its Equivalent). ASU 2015-07 removes the requirement to include investments in the fair value hierarchy for which fair value is measured using the net asset value practical expedient in Accounting Standards Codification 820. ASU 2015-07 requires retrospective application and is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2015 with early adoption permitted. Management has elected to early adopt the provisions of this new standard. Accordingly, the standard was retrospectively applied.

In July 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-12, Plan Accounting: Defined Benefit Pension Plans (Topic 960), Defined Contribution Pension Plans (Topic 962), and Health and Welfare Benefit Plans (Topic 965) - I. Fully Benefit-Responsive Investment Contracts; II. Plan Investment Disclosures, and III. Measurement Date Practical Expedient. Part I requires fully benefit-responsive investment contracts to be measured, presented, and disclosed only at contract value. Part II requires that investments that are measured using fair value (both participant-directed and nonparticipant-directed investments) be grouped only by general type, eliminating the need to disaggregate the investments by nature, characteristics, and risks. Part II also eliminates the disclosure of individual investments that represent 5 percent or more of net assets available for benefits and the disclosure of net appreciation or depreciation for investments by general type, requiring only presentation of net appreciation or depreciation in investments in the aggregate. Additionally, if an investment is measured using the net asset value per share as a practical expedient and that investment is a fund that files a U.S. Department of Labor Form 5500, as a direct filing entity, disclosure of that investment’s strategy is no longer required. Part III is not applicable to the Plan. The amendments in ASU 2015-12 are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2015, with early application permitted. The amendments within Parts I and II require retrospective application. Management has elected to early adopt the provisions of Parts I and II of this new standard. Accordingly, these provisions were retrospectively applied.

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Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2015 and 2014

The framework for measuring fair value 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) and the lowest priority to unobservable inputs (level 3). The three levels of the fair value hierarchy under authoritative guidance are described as follows:

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.

Level 2 - Inputs other than quoted prices included within Level 1 that are observable for the asset or liability, either directly or indirectly, such as:

If the asset or liability has a specified (contractual) term, the level 2 input must be observable for substantially the full term of the asset or liability.

Level 3 - Inputs to the valuation methodology are unobservable and significant to the fair value measurement.

The asset 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. Valuation techniques maximize the use of relevant observables and minimize the use of unobservable inputs.

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Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2015 and 2014

The following descriptions of the valuation methods and assumptions used by the Plan to estimate the fair values of investments apply to investments held directly by the Plan. There have been no changes in methodologies used at December 31, 2015 and 2014.

Bank common stock: Investments in Bank common stock is stated at fair value as determined by quoted market prices (Level 1 inputs).

Mutual funds are valued at the daily closing price as reported by the fund. Mutual funds held by the Plan are open-end mutual funds that are registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These funds are required to publish their daily net asset value (“NAV”) and to transact at that price.

Collective trust accounts (“CTA”) and pooled separate accounts (“PSA”) are valued at NAV. This practical expedient is not used when it is determined to be probable that the fund will sell the investment for an amount different than the reported NAV. CTAs and PSAs are valued based upon the units of such CTA or PSA held by the Plan at year end multiplied by the respective unit value. The unit value of the pooled separate accounts are based upon significant observable inputs, although are not based upon quoted market prices in an active market. The underlying investments of the pooled separate accounts consist solely of mutual funds, each of which follows a separate investment strategy. The fair values of participation units held in common collective trust funds were based on their net asset values, as reported by the managers and as supported by the unit prices of actual purchase and sale transactions occurring as of or close to the financial statement date.

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Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2015 and 2014

Investments Measured Using NAV per Share Practical Expedient

The following table summarizes investments measured at fair value based on NAV per share practical expedient as of December 31, 2015 and 2014, respectively.

The Plan holds a traditional investment contract. This contract meets the fully benefit-responsive investment contract criteria and therefore is reported at contract value. Contract value is the relevant measure for fully benefit-responsive investment contracts because this is the amount received by participants if they were to initiate permitted transactions under the terms of the Plan. Contract value represents contributions made under each contract, plus earnings, less participant withdrawals, and administrative expenses. The following represents the disaggregation of contract value.

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Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2015 and 2014

The traditional investment contract held by the Plan is a guaranteed investment contract. The contract issuer is contractually obligated to repay the principal and interest at the specified interest rate that is guaranteed to the Plan. The crediting rate is based on a formula established by the contract issuer but may not be less than 2 percent. The crediting rate is reviewed on a quarterly basis for resetting. The contract cannot be terminated before the scheduled maturity date.

The Plan’s ability to receive amounts due in accordance with fully benefit-responsive investment contracts is dependent on the third-party issuer’s ability to meet its financial obligations. The issuer’s ability to meet its contractual obligations may be affected by future economic and regulatory developments.

Certain events might limit the ability of the Plan to transact at contract value with the contract issuer. Examples of such events include the following:

No events are probable of occurring that might limit the ability of the Plan to transact at contract value with the contract issuers and that also would limit the ability of the Plan to transact at contract value with the participants.

In addition, certain events allow the issuer to terminate the contracts with the Plan and settle at an amount different from contract value. Those events may be different under each contract. Examples of such events include the following:

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The Plan’s assets are administered under a contract with Principal Trust Company, Inc., the trustee of the Plan. The trustee invests funds received from contributions, investment sales, interest, and dividend income and makes distribution payments to participants.

Parties-in-interest are defined under Department of Labor (“DOL”) regulations as any fiduciary of the Plan, any party rendering service to the Plan, the employer, and certain others. The Plan holds multiple sub-advisors funds managed by Principal Financial Group, the Plan’s investment manager and the Plan’s trustee, which qualify as party-in-interest transactions. The Plan also holds shares of Cape Bancorp, Inc. common stock (Note 3). Notes receivable from the participants held by the Plan are also considered party-in-interest transactions. Certain administrative functions are performed by officers or employees of the Bank. No such officer or employee receives compensation from the Plan.

Certain professional fees for the administration of the Plan were paid by the Bank on behalf of the Plan. During 2015 and 2014 the Plan paid Principal as custodian, trustee and recordkeeper $24,811 and $27,862 respectively.

Although it has not expressed any intent to do so, the Bank has the right under the Plan to discontinue its contributions at any time and to terminate the Plan subject to the provisions of ERISA. See Note 10 for subsequent event disclosure.

The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) issued an opinion letter dated September 30, 2008 indicating that the prototype adopted by the Plan through December 31, 2013, as then designed, was in compliance with applicable requirements of the Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”). Effective January 1, 2014, the Plan adopted a new Plan document and have applied for a determination from the IRS. Although the Plan has been amended from the original prototype document, Plan management believes that the Plan is currently being operated in accordance with the IRC.

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Notes to Financial Statements

December 31, 2015 and 2014  

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

On January 5, 2016 Cape Bank announced in a joint press release with Ocean First Bank that Cape Bancorp and subsidiaries had entered into a definitive agreement to be purchased by Ocean First Bancorp of Toms River, New Jersey. This transaction closed on May 2, 2016. The Plan will be maintained through the year ending 2016. At year-end, the Plan’s assets and loans will be transferred into the Ocean First Bank 401(k) Plan. At that time, the Cape Plan will be effectively merged into the Ocean First Bank 401(k) Plan and cease to exist.

For the year ended December 31, 2014, the Bank did not remit certain participant contributions to the Plan on a timely basis as defined by the Department of Labor’s Rules and Regulations for Reporting and Delinquent Participant Contributions Disclosure under ERISA. Untimely remittances identified on the Schedule of Delinquent Participant Contributions, which totaled $142, were fully corrected through the Department of Labor Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program in 2015. Additionally, the Bank has compensated participants for lost earnings resulting from the delay in contributions in 2016.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

CAPE BANK EMPLOYEES’ SAVINGS & PROFIT

SHARING PLAN

Schedule H, Line 4a – Schedule of Delinquent Participant Contributions

Year Ended December 31, 2015

Name of Plan Sponsor: Cape Bank

Employer Identification Number: 21-0600992

Three-digit Plan Number: 003

(1) Amount does not include participant loan repayments.

CAPE BANK EMPLOYEES’ SAVINGS & PROFIT

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Schedule H, Line 4i – Schedule of Assets (Held at End of Year)

December 31, 2015

Name of Plan Sponsor: Cape Bank

Employer Identification Number: 21-0600992

Three-digit Plan Number: 003

See accompanying report of independent registered public accounting firm.