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Ametek Inc/ 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $2.04bn of the $2.25bn in the Ametek Inc/ 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

Ametek Inc/ 401(k) match and balances, from the filing

Company money in
about $4,720 per active participant
$40m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $8,970 each
$75m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$161,300
12,053 people with a balance
In the plan
$1.94bn
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 8,402 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 AMETEK, INC. as “THE AMETEK RETIREMENT AND SAVINGS PLAN” · EIN 141682544, plan number 078 · search the filings

The Ametek Inc/ 401(k) holds $2.25bn. Of the $2.07bn we could identify from the plan’s own filing, 98.3% sits in funds that publish no record of how they voted your shares — collective trusts, which unlike a mutual fund file no Form N-PX and leave no public trace of a single vote.

SourceAmetek Inc/’s own annual retirement-plan filing with the SEC (Form 11-K, Schedule of Assets) · open the filing

What the plan holdsVehicleVoting recordValue
Spartan 500 Index Pool Class Clisted as “Common/Collective Trust” Collective trust or separate account NONE $290m
T. Rowe Price Structured Research Common Trust Fund Class Dlisted as “Common/Collective Trust” Collective trust or separate account NONE $248m
Vanguard Target Retirement 2030 Trust Ilisted as “Common/Collective Trust” Collective trust or separate account NONE $232m
Vanguard Target Retirement 2035 Trust Ilisted as “Common/Collective Trust” Collective trust or separate account NONE $206m
Vanguard Target Retirement 2025 Trust Ilisted as “Common/Collective Trust” Collective trust or separate account NONE $185m
AMETEK Stock Fundlisted as “AMETEK Stock Fund” Employer stock Voted by the plan trustee $152m
Vanguard Target Retirement 2040 Trust Ilisted as “Common/Collective Trust” Collective trust or separate account NONE $135m
Vanguard Target Retirement 2045 Trust Ilisted as “Common/Collective Trust” Collective trust or separate account NONE $110m
Voya Stabilizer Fund (Separate Account for Ametek No. 920)listed as “Separate Account” Collective trust or separate account NONE $104m
Vanguard Target Retirement 2050 Trust Ilisted as “Common/Collective Trust” Collective trust or separate account NONE $91m
Vanguard Target Retirement 2020 Trust Ilisted as “Common/Collective Trust” Collective trust or separate account NONE $72m
Spartan Extended Market Index Pool Class Clisted as “Common/Collective Trust” Collective trust or separate account NONE $69m

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 Ametek Inc/ 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 Ametek Inc/; 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 99.8% 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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