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Federal Signal 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options
Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? Vanguard PRIMECAP Fund is the largest fund in the Federal Signal plan that publishes its votes. Answer 3 of its ballots from this season, then see your result.
The question on the ballot
As filed
Federal Signal 401(k) match and balances, from the filing
- Company money in
- about $3,320 per active participant
- $13m in plan year 2024
- Employees saved
- about $5,280 each
- $20m in plan year 2024
- Average balance
- $113,400
- 4,797 people with a balance
- In the plan
- $544m
- at the end of plan year 2024
Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 3,837 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 FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION as “FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN” · EIN 361063330, plan number 004 · search the filings
These are the funds in the Federal Signal 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 Federal Signal’s own annual retirement-plan filing · open the filing
| Fund | Climate | Workers | Pay equity | Exec pay backed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguard PRIMECAP Fund listed as “Vanguard PRIMECAP Fund” | 0 of 29 | 0 of 13 | 0 of 3 | 94.7% |
| Vanguard Institutional Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Institutional Index Fund” | 0 of 66 | 0 of 20 | 0 of 6 | 97.8% |
| Vanguard Explorer Fund listed as “Vanguard Explorer Fund” | 2 of 5 | — | 0 of 2 | 94.3% |
| Vanguard International Growth Fund listed as “Vanguard International Growth Fund” | 0 of 6 | 0 of 3 | — | 91.4% |
| Vanguard Morningstar Small-Cap Value Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index Fund” | 0 of 14 | 0 of 2 | 0 of 3 | 97.8% |
| Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Mid-Cap Index Fund Admiral Shares” | 0 of 13 | 0 of 3 | 0 of 2 | 97.6% |
| Emerging Markets Social Core Equity Portfolio listed as “DFA Emerging Markets Core Equity Portfolio Institutional Class” | — | — | — | 66.7% |
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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