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Ennis 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $130m of the $165m in the Ennis 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

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

Company money in
about $1,030 per active participant
$2m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $2,790 each
$5m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$73,600
2,174 people with a balance
In the plan
$160m
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 1,816 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 ENNIS, INC. as “ENNIS INC. 401K PLAN” · EIN 750256410, plan number 011 · search the filings

The Ennis 401(k) holds $165m. Of the $130m 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.

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

What the plan holdsVehicleVoting recordValue
Great Gray Trustlisted as “RT Moderate Retire 2035” Collective trust or separate account NONE $27m
Great Gray Trustlisted as “RT Moderate Retire” Collective trust or separate account NONE $26m
MML Investment Advisors, LLClisted as “MassMutual Diversified SAGIC II” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $15m
Fidelity Management Trustlisted as “Fidelity 500 Index” Collective trust or separate account NONE $14m
Fidelity Management Companylisted as “Fidelity Mid Cap Index Instl Prem” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $12m
Great Gray Trustlisted as “AB US Large Cap Growth CIT” Collective trust or separate account NONE $11m
Great Gray Trustlisted as “RT Moderate Retire 2045” Collective trust or separate account NONE $10m
Putnam Fiduciary Trust Companylisted as “Putnam Large Cap Value” Collective trust or separate account NONE $7m
Great Gray Trustlisted as “MyWayRetirement Balanced” Collective trust or separate account NONE $6m
Great Gray Trustlisted as “Columbia Overseas Value CIT” Collective trust or separate account NONE $5m
Great Gray Trustlisted as “MyWayRetirement Small Cap Growth” Collective trust or separate account NONE $5m
Great Gray Trustlisted as “RT Moderate Retire 2055” Collective trust or separate account NONE $5m

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 Ennis 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 Ennis; 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 82% 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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