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Aegon 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options
Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $1.42bn of the $2.66bn in the Aegon plan votes in secret. Fidelity 500 Index Fund, the most common fund in the plans we track, publishes every vote: answer 3 of its ballots, then see your result.
The question on the ballot
As filed
The Aegon 401(k) holds $2.66bn. Of the $1.42bn we could identify from the plan’s own filing, every dollar sits in a fund that publishes no record of how it voted your shares — collective trusts, which unlike a mutual fund file no Form N-PX and leave no public trace of a single vote.
SourceAegon’s own annual retirement-plan filing with the SEC (Form 11-K, Schedule of Assets) · open the filing
| What the plan holds | Vehicle | Voting record | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fidelitylisted as “Spartan 500 Index Pool Class D **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $685m |
| Transamerica Financial Life Insurance Company *listed as “Stable Fund **” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $490m |
| WTClisted as “WTC - CIF II Growth (Series 4) **” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $438m |
| Prudentiallisted as “Prudential Core Plus Bond **” | Bonds | No shares to vote | $143m |
| Fidelitylisted as “Spartan Extended Mkt Index Pool Class D **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $141m |
| MFS Heritage Trust Companylisted as “MFS Intl Equity CIT Class 3A **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $123m |
| Boston Partnerslisted as “Boston Partners Large Cap Value Equity Class D **” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $116m |
| Fidelitylisted as “Spartan Total International Index Pool Class D **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $78m |
| BlackRocklisted as “BlackRock Lifepath Index 2040 CIT Class W **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $62m |
| BlackRocklisted as “BlackRock Lifepath Index 2035 CIT Class W **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $59m |
| BlackRocklisted as “BlackRock Lifepath Index 2045 CIT Class W **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $52m |
| BlackRocklisted as “BlackRock Lifepath Index 2030 CIT Class W **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $50m |
The 12 largest holdings in the plan. “Vehicle” is the description the filing itself gives each investment.
Why there is nothing to show
A mutual fund has to file Form N-PX every year listing every vote it cast on your behalf. A collective investment trust does not. It is a bank-run vehicle sold only inside retirement plans, it is cheaper, and it is now where most 401(k) default money sits — including most target-date funds, which is where savers who never chose anything are put.
So the shares bought with Aegon employees’ retirement savings are voted every proxy season — on executive pay, on board seats, on climate and workforce proposals — and there is no public document anywhere recording how. This is not an oversight by Aegon; it is what the disclosure rules currently require, which is to say: nothing.
What you can do
Check whether your plan offers any registered fund as an alternative — those publish their records, and you can read them here. If it does not, the menu itself is the thing that has to change, and that is a decision made by the plan’s fiduciary committee, not by you alone.
See how funds that do publish voted →
CoverageWe classified 60.7% of this plan’s assets from the filing. The figure above is the share of the money we could classify; anything we could not identify is excluded from it rather than assumed either way.
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