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Championx 401(k): company match and investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $461m of the $724m in the Championx 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

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

Company money in
about $7,450 per active participant
$31m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $9,150 each
$38m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$139,500
5,191 people with a balance
In the plan
$724m
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 4,147 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.

5,191 people have a balance in the Championx 401(k), and it holds $724m. Of the $710m whose vehicle the plan reports, 65% sits in funds that publish no record of how they voted your shares — collective trusts and separate accounts, which unlike a mutual fund file no Form N-PX and leave no public trace of a single vote.

SourceThe plan’s own annual report to the Department of Labor — Form 5500, Schedule H, plan year 2024 · filed by CHAMPIONX LLC as “CHAMPIONX 401(K) PLAN” · EIN 361520480, plan number 001 · search the filings

What the plan holdsVoting recordValue
Common/collective trusts NONE $461m
Registered funds (mutual funds and ETFs) PUBLISHED $248m
Participant loans No shares to vote $14m

Every asset class the plan itemised on Schedule H, straight from the filing. These are categories, not fund names: Schedule H asks what KIND of vehicle the money is in, never which one, which is why no fund is named on this page.

Why there is no list of Championx’s funds anywhere

Some employers file a Form 11-K with the SEC each year, and it contains a schedule naming every investment in the 401(k), fund by fund. Championx does not file one, and that is not an oversight: a plan only has to file an 11-K when interests in it are registered securities, which in practice means the 401(k) offers a company stock fund. Plans that pay equity as RSUs outside the plan, as most large technology employers do, never trigger the requirement.

So the only public account of this plan is the Form 5500 above, which reports what categories the money sits in and never which funds. That is the whole reason this page can tell you 65% of the identified money votes in secret and cannot tell you which manager cast those votes.

Why the secrecy, and what you can do

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.

Check whether your plan offers any registered mutual 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 →

CoverageThe plan reports the vehicle for 100% of its assets.

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