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Cabot 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 Cabot plan that publishes its votes. Answer 3 of its ballots from this season, then see your result.
The question on the ballot
As filed
Cabot 401(k) match and balances, from the filing
- Company money in
- about $13,390 per active participant
- $14m in plan year 2024
- Employees saved
- about $13,800 each
- $15m in plan year 2024
- Average balance
- $480,800
- 1,821 people with a balance
- In the plan
- $876m
- at the end of plan year 2024
Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 1,054 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 CABOT CORPORATION as “CABOT 401(K) PLAN” · EIN 042271897, plan number 022 · search the filings
These are the funds in the Cabot 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 Cabot’s own annual retirement-plan filing · open the filing
| Fund | Climate | Workers | Pay equity | Exec pay backed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard Institutional Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Institutional Index Fund” | 0 of 66 | 0 of 20 | 0 of 6 | 97.8% |
| Vanguard Wellington Fund listed as “Vanguard Wellington Fund” | 1 of 29 | 2 of 8 | 0 of 2 | 88.3% |
| Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund” | 0 of 12 | 0 of 3 | 0 of 3 | 96.4% |
| Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund” | 0 of 95 | 0 of 10 | 0 of 4 | 83.1% |
| Vanguard Windsor II Fund listed as “Vanguard Windsor II Fund” | 0 of 30 | 0 of 10 | 0 of 3 | 96.9% |
| Vanguard Explorer Fund listed as “Vanguard Explorer Fund” | 2 of 5 | — | 0 of 2 | 94.3% |
| Vanguard International Growth Fund listed as “Vanguard International Growth Fund” | 0 of 6 | 0 of 3 | — | 91.4% |
| Vanguard International Value Fund listed as “Vanguard International Value Fund” | 0 of 11 | — | — | 90.5% |
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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