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Flagstar Bank, National Association 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options
Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $733m of the $1.82bn in the Flagstar Bank, National Association 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
The Flagstar Bank, National Association 401(k) holds $1.82bn. Of the $980m we could identify from the plan’s own filing, 74.7% 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.
SourceFlagstar Bank, National Association’s own annual retirement-plan filing with the SEC (Form 11-K, Schedule of Assets) · open the filing
| What the plan holds | Vehicle | Voting record | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subtotal Collective Trust Funds | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $583m |
| Subtotal Mutual Funds | Registered fund | PUBLISHED | $248m |
| Fidelitylisted as “Growth Compy Commingled Pl” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $144m |
| Vanguardlisted as “Institutional Index Instl Pl” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $122m |
| Fidelitylisted as “Freedom 2035 Cmgld Pool D” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $65m |
| Fidelitylisted as “Freedom 2030 Cmgld Pool D” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $57m |
| Fidelitylisted as “Freedom 2045 Cmgld Pool D” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $55m |
| Flagstar Bank, National Associationlisted as “Common Stock” | Employer stock | Voted by the plan trustee | $55m |
| Fidelitylisted as “Freedom 2040 Cmgld Pool D” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $55m |
| Fidelitylisted as “Freedom 2050 Cmgld Pool D” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $46m |
| Reliance MetLifelisted as “Gac Series 25053 Cl M” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $45m |
| Subtotal Variable Annuities | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $43m |
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 Flagstar Bank, National Association 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 Flagstar Bank, National Association; 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 59.6% 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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