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Duke Energy 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

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The question on the ballot

As filed

Duke Energy 401(k) match and balances, from the filing

Company money in
about $9,490 per active participant
$252m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $12,720 each
$338m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$323,500
34,836 people with a balance
In the plan
$11.27bn
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 26,616 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 DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION as “DUKE ENERGY RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN” · EIN 202777218, plan number 002 · search the filings

These are the funds in the Duke Energy 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 Duke Energy’s own annual retirement-plan filing · open the filing

FundClimateWorkersPay equityExec pay backed
S&P 500 Index Fund listed as “US Equity S P 500 Index Fund” 3 of 592 of 20 0 of 589.6%
Fidelity Enhanced U.S. All-Cap Equity ETF listed as “US Equity All Cap Blend Fund” 3 of 282 of 14 0 of 395.4%
Touchstone Non-US Equity Fund listed as “Non-US Equity Blend Fund” —— —100%
Touchstone Non-US Equity Fund listed as “Non-US Equity Index Fund” —— —100%
American Funds IS 2045 Target Date Retirement Fund listed as “Target Retirement Date Fund 2045” · record folded from the funds it holds 1 of 4213 of 126 5 of 2088%
American Funds IS 2030 Target Date Retirement Fund listed as “Target Retirement Date Fund 2030” · record folded from the funds it holds 1 of 3773 of 105 5 of 1889.1%
American Funds IS 2040 Target Date Retirement Fund listed as “Target Retirement Date Fund 2040” · record folded from the funds it holds 1 of 4163 of 125 5 of 2088.7%
American Funds IS 2050 Target Date Retirement Fund listed as “Target Retirement Date Fund 2050” · record folded from the funds it holds 1 of 4123 of 125 5 of 2087.6%
American Funds IS 2035 Target Date Retirement Fund listed as “Target Retirement Date Fund 2035” · record folded from the funds it holds 1 of 3773 of 105 5 of 1889.1%
American Funds IS 2055 Target Date Retirement Fund listed as “Target Retirement Date Fund 2055” · record folded from the funds it holds 1 of 4123 of 125 5 of 2087.6%
American Funds 2025 Target Date Retirement Income Fund listed as “Target Retirement Date Fund 2025” · record folded from the funds it holds 0 of 2932 of 75 5 of 1592.5%
American Funds IS 2060 Target Date Retirement Fund listed as “Target Retirement Date Fund 2060” · record folded from the funds it holds 1 of 3393 of 111 3 of 1686.5%
Ab Global Real Estate Investment Fund, Inc. listed as “Global Real Estate Investment Trust Fund” —0 of 1 —74.4%
Diversified Real Asset Fund listed as “Diversified Real Asset Fund” 4 of 140 of 1 —94.6%

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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