You Own Wall Street › Employer plans › Cencora

Cencora 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $2.23bn of the $2.43bn in the Cencora 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

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

Company money in
about $3,890 per active participant
$63m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $6,870 each
$110m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$96,700
21,726 people with a balance
In the plan
$2.10bn
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 16,073 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 CENCORA, INC. as “CENCORA EMPLOYEE INVESTMENT PLAN” · EIN 233079390, plan number 010 · search the filings

The Cencora 401(k) holds $2.43bn. Of the $2.28bn we could identify from the plan’s own filing, 97.6% 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.

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

What the plan holdsVehicleVoting recordValue
Fidelity Growth Company Commingled Pool Class Alisted as “Commingled Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $336m
State Street S&P 500 Index Securities Lending Series Fund Class IIlisted as “Common Collective Trust Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $265m
Fidelity Freedom Blend 2040 Commingled Pool Class Tlisted as “Commingled Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $224m
Fidelity Freedom Blend 2035 Commingled Pool Class Tlisted as “Commingled Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $220m
Fidelity Freedom Blend 2045 Commingled Pool Class Tlisted as “Commingled Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $204m
Fidelity Freedom Blend 2030 Commingled Pool Class Tlisted as “Commingled Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $172m
Fidelity Freedom Blend 2050 Commingled Pool Class Tlisted as “Commingled Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $167m
Fidelity Freedom Blend 2055 Commingled Pool Class Tlisted as “Commingled Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $124m
Cencora Stock Fundlisted as “Common Stock Fund” Employer stock Voted by the plan trustee $111m
Fidelity Freedom Blend 2025 Commingled Pool Class Tlisted as “Commingled Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $81m
Fidelity Freedom Blend 2060 Commingled Pool Class Tlisted as “Commingled Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $76m
Fidelity Managed Income Portfolio II Class 4listed as “Common Collective Trust Fund” 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 Cencora 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 Cencora; 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 100% 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.

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 planSwissport North America 401(k)6,179 savers · $174mBright Horizons 401(k)9,581 savers · $466mSkadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom 401(k)4,608 savers · $1.47bnThompsongas 401(k)1,410 savers · $40mAmerican Crystal Sugar 401(k)1,431 savers · $185mJ. F. Shea 401(k)2,612 savers · $483m