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Covenant Logistics Group 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $128m of the $163m in the Covenant Logistics Group 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 Covenant Logistics Group 401(k) holds $163m. Of the $138m we could identify from the plan’s own filing, 92.2% 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.

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

What the plan holdsVehicleVoting recordValue
Collective Trust Funds Total Collective trust or separate account NONE $67m
Mutual Fund Total Registered fund PUBLISHED $11m
Great Graylisted as “Great Gray Trust Capital Group 2030 MS” Collective trust or separate account NONE $10m
Great Graylisted as “Great Gray Trust Capital Group 2045 MS” Collective trust or separate account NONE $8m
Great Graylisted as “Great Gray Trust Capital Group 2040 MS” Collective trust or separate account NONE $7m
Great Graylisted as “Great Gray Trust Capital Group 2035 MS” Collective trust or separate account NONE $7m
Fidelitylisted as “Fidelity 500 Index” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $7m
Great Graylisted as “Great Gray Trust Capital Group 2025 MS” Collective trust or separate account NONE $7m
Great Graylisted as “Great Gray Trust Capital Group 2055 MS” Collective trust or separate account NONE $5m
Great Graylisted as “Great Gray Trust Capital Group 2050 MS” Collective trust or separate account NONE $5m
Covenantlisted as “Covenant Stock Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $4m
Putnamlisted as “Putnam Stable Val (25)” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $4m

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 Covenant Logistics Group 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 Covenant Logistics Group; 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 86.5% 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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