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HP 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $9.76bn of the $10.80bn in the HP 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

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

Company money in
about $4,370 per active participant
$65m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $12,680 each
$188m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$300,400
34,268 people with a balance
In the plan
$10.29bn
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 14,808 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 HP INC. as “HP INC. 401(K) PLAN” · EIN 941081436, plan number 004 · search the filings

The HP 401(k) holds $10.80bn. Of the $9.76bn 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.

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

What the plan holdsVehicleVoting recordValue
BlackRocklisted as “Russell 1000 Index Fund F” Collective trust or separate account NONE $2.31bn
SEI Trust Companylisted as “US Large Cap Equity Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $2.05bn
Fidelitylisted as “Self-Directed Brokerage Account” Brokerage window Whatever the saver buys $494m
SEI Trust Companylisted as “International Equity Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $477m
SEI Trust Companylisted as “US Small/Mid Cap Equity Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $476m
SEI Trust Companylisted as “1965 Birth Date Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $464m
SEI Trust Companylisted as “1970 Birth Date Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $453m
BlackRocklisted as “Russell 2500 Index Fund F” Collective trust or separate account NONE $446m
Vanguardlisted as “Federal Money Market Fund” Money-market fund PUBLISHED $417m
SEI Trust Companylisted as “1975 Birth Date Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $325m
SEI Trust Companylisted as “Short Term Bond Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $317m
SEI Trust Companylisted as “1960 Birth Date Fund” Collective trust or separate account NONE $290m

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 HP 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 HP; 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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The largest employer plans on the site, and a few more. Each page shows what the plan’s funds did with the shares its savers paid for.

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