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Ames National 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 Fund is the largest fund in the Ames National plan that publishes its votes. Answer 3 of its ballots from this season, then see your result.

The question on the ballot

As filed

These are the funds in the Ames National 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 Ames National’s own annual retirement-plan filing · open the filing

FundClimateWorkersPay equityExec pay backed
Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 Fund listed as “Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 Fund” · record folded from the funds it holds 0 of 1740 of 33 0 of 1391.5%
Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 Fund listed as “Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 Fund” · record folded from the funds it holds 0 of 1740 of 33 0 of 1391.5%
Vanguard 500 Index Fund listed as “Vanguard 500 Index Fund Admiral Shares” 0 of 660 of 20 0 of 698.1%
Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund Admiral Shares” 0 of 790 of 23 0 of 996.8%
Vanguard Target Retirement 2045 Fund listed as “Vanguard Target Retirement 2045 Fund” · record folded from the funds it holds 0 of 1740 of 33 0 of 1391.5%
Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund Admiral Shares” 0 of 130 of 3 0 of 297.6%
Vanguard Target Retirement 2055 Fund listed as “Vanguard Target Retirement 2055 Fund” · record folded from the funds it holds 0 of 1740 of 33 0 of 1391.5%
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Small-Cap Index Fund Admiral Shares” 0 of 170 of 2 0 of 396.6%
Vanguard Target Retirement Income Fund listed as “Vanguard Target Retirement Income” · record folded from the funds it holds 0 of 1740 of 33 0 of 1391.5%
Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Fund listed as “Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Fund” · record folded from the funds it holds 0 of 1740 of 33 0 of 1391.5%
Davis New York Venture Fund listed as “Davis New York Venture Fund; Class Y” 0 of 90 of 2 —100%
Vanguard Target Retirement 2060 Fund listed as “Vanguard Target Retirement 2060 Fund” · record folded from the funds it holds 0 of 1740 of 33 0 of 1391.5%
PIMCO Total Return Fund listed as “PIMCO Total Return Fund; Institutional Class” —— —100%
Vanguard Target Retirement 2020 Fund listed as “Vanguard Target Retirement 2020 Fund” · record folded from the funds it holds 0 of 1740 of 33 0 of 1391.5%
Vanguard Target Retirement 2065 Fund listed as “Vanguard Target Retirement 2065 Fund” · record folded from the funds it holds 0 of 1740 of 33 0 of 1391.5%
Vanguard Target Retirement 2040 Fund listed as “Vanguard Target Retirement 2040 Fund” · record folded from the funds it holds 0 of 1740 of 33 0 of 1391.5%
Vanguard Target Retirement 2050 Fund listed as “Vanguard Target Retirement 2050 Fund” · record folded from the funds it holds 0 of 1740 of 33 0 of 1391.5%
Vanguard Target Retirement 2070 Fund listed as “Vanguard Target Retirement 2070 Fund” · record folded from the funds it holds 0 of 1740 of 33 0 of 1391.5%

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.

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