You Own Wall Street › Employer plans › Ameris Bancorp

Ameris Bancorp 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? Vanguard 500 Index Fund is the largest fund in the Ameris Bancorp plan that publishes its votes. Answer 3 of its ballots from this season, then see your result.

The question on the ballot

As filed

Ameris Bancorp 401(k) match and balances, from the filing

Company money in
about $2,640 per active participant
$7m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $7,620 each
$20m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$90,400
3,260 people with a balance
In the plan
$295m
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 2,689 active participants, including anyone who did not contribute. The filing reports dollars, not the match formula; the plan’s summary plan description states the formula.

SourceThe plan’s annual report to the Department of Labor — Form 5500, Schedule H, plan year 2024 · filed by AMERIS BANCORP as “AMERIS BANCORP 401(K) PROFIT SHARING PLAN” · EIN 581456434, plan number 002 · search the filings

These are the funds in the Ameris Bancorp retirement plan whose voting records we can trace, taken from the plan’s own annual filing. The figures show what each one did with shareholder proposals.

SourceThe fund menu is the list of investments in Ameris Bancorp’s own annual retirement-plan filing · open the filing

FundClimateWorkersPay equityExec pay backed
Vanguard 500 Index Fund listed as “VANGUARD GROUP - VANGUARD 500 INDEX ADMIRAL FD” 0 of 660 of 20 0 of 698.1%
MML VIP Loomis Sayles Large Cap Growth Fund listed as “JP MORGAN INVESTMENT MGMT INC JP MORGAN LARGE CAP GROWTH R6 FD” 0 of 150 of 6 0 of 192.9%
Putnam Large Cap Value Fund listed as “PUTNAM INVESTMENTS - PUTNAM LARGE CAP VALUE R6 FUND” 1 of 210 of 5 0 of 196.4%
Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Index Fund listed as “VANGUARD GROUP - VANGUARD MID CAP INDEX ADM FD” 0 of 130 of 3 0 of 297.6%
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Index Fund listed as “VANGUARD GROUP - VANGUARD SM CAP INDEX ADM FUND” 0 of 170 of 2 0 of 396.6%
Vanguard Developed Markets Index Fund listed as “VANGUARD GROUP - VANGUARD DEV MKTS INDEX ADM FD” 0 of 950 of 10 0 of 485.2%
MML VIP T. Rowe Price Mid Cap Growth Fund listed as “JP MORGAN INVESTMENT MGMT INC JP MORGAN MID CAP GROWTH R6 FD” 0 of 1— —93.5%
MFS International Growth Fund listed as “MFS INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT - MFS INTERNATIONAL GROWTH R6 FUND” 0 of 1— —92.3%
MML VIP American Century Mid Cap Value Fund listed as “AMERICAN CENTURY INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT - AMERICAN CENTURY MID-CAP VAL R6” 0 of 5— 0 of 197.6%

What this means for you

Most people are in whichever fund their plan made the default, and never look again. The figures above are the part nobody shows you when you pick: not the fee, not last year's return, but what the fund did with the shares your savings paid for.

Vote the full deck for this plan’s fund →

Other employer plans

The largest employer plans on the site, and a few more. Each page shows what the plan’s funds did with the shares its savers paid for.

Microsoft 401(k)$64.92bn in the planBank of America 401(k)248,103 savers · $62.90bnJPMorgan Chase 401(k)297,359 savers · $52.91bnGoogle 401(k)154,637 savers · $48.74bnWells Fargo 401(k)$43.80bn in the planAmazon 401(k)943,213 savers · $34.59bnInternational Business Machines 401(k)$28.25bn in the planIntel 401(k)$26.91bn in the planDuke Energy 401(k)$11.26bn in the planAlbemarle 401(k)3,779 savers · $961mEresearch Technology 401(k)2,932 savers · $309mG & J Pepsi-Cola Bottlers 401(k)1,586 savers · $110mGSK 401(k)21,718 savers · $8.79bnSia 401(k)7,919 savers · $903m