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Community Trust Bancorp 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $40m of the $41m in the Community Trust Bancorp 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

The Community Trust Bancorp 401(k) holds $41m. Of the $40m we could identify from the plan’s own filing, every dollar sits in a fund that publishes no record of how it voted your shares — collective trusts, which unlike a mutual fund file no Form N-PX and leave no public trace of a single vote.

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

What the plan holdsVehicleVoting recordValue
Community Trust Bancorp, Inc.listed as “Common Stock,760,396 shares” Collective trust or separate account NONE $40m
Vanguardlisted as “500 Index Fund Admiral **” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $283,636
Dodge & Coxlisted as “Stock Fund **” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $120,776
Vanguardlisted as “Target Retirement 2030 Fund **” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $94,318
Vanguardlisted as “Growth Index Admiral **” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $73,990
Dodge & Coxlisted as “Income Fund **” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $68,096
Vanguardlisted as “Target Retirement 2035 Fund **” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $42,765
Vanguardlisted as “Target Retirement 2020 Fund **” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $39,506
MFSlisted as “Mid Cap Value R6 **” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $30,686
Vanguardlisted as “Mid-Cap Growth Index Admiral **” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $30,090
Goldman Sachslisted as “Financial Square Government Fund **” Bonds No shares to vote $29,192
Nuveenlisted as “International Equity Index Fund R6 **” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $22,668

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 Community Trust Bancorp 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 Community Trust Bancorp; 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 97.9% 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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