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Avista 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

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

The question on the ballot

As filed

Avista 401(k) match and balances, from the filing

Company money in
about $7,980 per active participant
$16m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $12,740 each
$25m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$318,800
2,646 people with a balance
In the plan
$843m
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 1,994 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 AVISTA CORPORATION as “INVESTMENT & EMPLOYEE STOCK OWNERSHIP PLAN OF AVISTA” · EIN 910462470, plan number 003 · search the filings

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

FundClimateWorkersPay equityExec pay backed
Vanguard Institutional Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Institutional Index Fund” 0 of 660 of 20 0 of 697.8%
Vanguard Wellington Fund listed as “Vanguard Wellington Fund Admiral Shares” 1 of 292 of 8 0 of 288.3%
Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Total Int'l Stock Idx” 0 of 950 of 10 0 of 483.1%
Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund Instl Shares” 0 of 130 of 3 0 of 297.6%
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Growth Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Sm-Cap Growth Index” 0 of 3— —94.6%
T. Rowe Price Large-Cap Value Fund listed as “T. Rowe Price Inst'l Large Cap Value Fd C” 0 of 200 of 8 0 of 198.2%
Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Sm-Cap Value Index” 0 of 140 of 2 0 of 397.8%
Vanguard International Growth Fund listed as “Vanguard Intl Growth Fund Admiral Shares” 0 of 60 of 3 —91.4%
Transamerica International Equity listed as “Transamerica International Equity R6” 0 of 4— —86.7%
T. Rowe Price Integrated U.S. Small-Cap Growth Equity Fund listed as “T. Rowe Price QM US Sm-Cap Grwth Eqty Fd I” 0 of 1— 0 of 193.7%
Victory Sycamore Small Company Opportunity Fund listed as “Victory Sycamore Sm Co Opportunity Fd R6” —— —93.2%

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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