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Fiserv 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $4.71bn of the $4.78bn in the Fiserv 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

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

Company money in
about $3,080 per active participant
$70m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $9,980 each
$228m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$141,900
36,203 people with a balance
In the plan
$5.14bn
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 22,809 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 FISERV SOLUTIONS, LLC. as “FISERV 401(K) SAVINGS PLAN” · EIN 391833695, plan number 004 · search the filings

The Fiserv 401(k) holds $4.78bn. Of the $4.71bn 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.

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

What the plan holdsVehicleVoting recordValue
Vanguard Institutional 500 Index B Trust Collective trust or separate account NONE $970m
Vanguard Target Retirement Trust Select 2035 Collective trust or separate account NONE $652m
Vanguard Target Retirement Trust Select 2030 Collective trust or separate account NONE $651m
Vanguard Target Retirement Trust Select 2040 Collective trust or separate account NONE $546m
Vanguard Target Retirement Trust Select 2025 Collective trust or separate account NONE $336m
Vanguard Target Retirement Trust Select 2045 Collective trust or separate account NONE $330m
Vanguard Target Retirement Trust Select 2050 Collective trust or separate account NONE $249m
Vanguard Institutional Extended Market Index B Trust Collective trust or separate account NONE $179m
Vanguard Institutional International Market Index B Trust Collective trust or separate account NONE $178m
Vanguard Target Retirement Trust Select 2020 Collective trust or separate account NONE $157m
Vanguard Target Retirement Trust Select 2055 Collective trust or separate account NONE $137m
Vanguard Institutional Total Bond Market Index B Trust Collective trust or separate account NONE $114m

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 Fiserv 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 Fiserv; 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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