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First Horizon 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $1.04bn of the $1.25bn in the First Horizon 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

First Horizon 401(k) match and balances, from the filing

Company money in
about $4,880 per active participant
$36m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $7,060 each
$52m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$115,600
9,671 people with a balance
In the plan
$1.12bn
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 7,406 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 FIRST HORIZON CORPORATION as “FIRST HORIZON CORPORATION SAVINGS PLAN” · EIN 620803242, plan number 002 · search the filings

The First Horizon 401(k) holds $1.25bn. Of the $1.10bn we could identify from the plan’s own filing, 94.6% 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.

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

What the plan holdsVehicleVoting recordValue
BlackRock Equity Index Fundlisted as “Common/collective trust fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $236m
Schwab Personal Choice Retirement Accountlisted as “Self-Directed Brokerage Account” Brokerage window Whatever the saver buys $129m
First Horizon Corporationlisted as “First Horizon Corporation common stock fund, 5,683,172.72 units” Collective trust or separate account NONE $126m
BlackRock LifePath Index Retirement Olisted as “Common/collective trust fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $70m
BlackRock LifePath Index 2035 Olisted as “Common/collective trust fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $69m
Invesco Stable Value Trust Class B1listed as “Common/collective stable value fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $66m
BlackRock LifePath Index 2030 Olisted as “Common/collective trust fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $59m
BlackRock LifePath Index 2045 Olisted as “Common/collective trust fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $57m
BlackRock LifePath Index 2040 Olisted as “Common/collective trust fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $52m
listed as “Loomis Sayles Large Cap Growth Trust D Common/collective trust fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $44m
listed as “T. Rowe Price Instl Large Cap Equity Mutual fund” Registered fund PUBLISHED $44m
BlackRock Russell 2500 Index Fundlisted as “Common/collective trust fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $39m

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 First Horizon 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 First Horizon; 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 100% 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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