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Martin Marietta Materials 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $706m of the $1.07bn in the Martin Marietta Materials 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

Martin Marietta Materials 401(k) match and balances, from the filing

Company money in
about $2,500 per active participant
$22m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $6,150 each
$55m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$85,300
10,594 people with a balance
In the plan
$903m
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 8,886 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 MARTIN MARIETTA MATERIALS, INC. as “MARTIN MARIETTA SAVINGS AND INVESTMENT PLAN” · EIN 561848578, plan number 006 · search the filings

The Martin Marietta Materials 401(k) holds $1.07bn. Of the $706m 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.

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

What the plan holdsVehicleVoting recordValue
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.listed as “BlackRock Equity Index Fund J” Collective trust or separate account NONE $126m
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.listed as “BlackRock Lifepath Index 2035 O” Collective trust or separate account NONE $97m
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.listed as “BlackRock Lifepath Index 2030 O” Collective trust or separate account NONE $81m
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.listed as “BlackRock Lifepath Index 2040 O” Collective trust or separate account NONE $75m
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.listed as “BlackRock Lifepath Index 2045 O” Collective trust or separate account NONE $74m
Harbor Fundslisted as “Harbor Capital Appreciation R” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $70m
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.listed as “BlackRock Lifepath Index 2050 O” Collective trust or separate account NONE $67m
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.listed as “BlackRock Lifepath Index Retirement O” Collective trust or separate account NONE $66m
Galliard Capital Management, LLClisted as “Galliard Stable Return Fund E” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $63m
Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.listed as “Common Stock” Employer stock Voted by the plan trustee $61m
Washington Mutuallisted as “American Funds Washington Mutual Class R-6” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $56m
BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A.listed as “BlackRock Lifepath Index 2055 O” Collective trust or separate account NONE $49m

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 Martin Marietta Materials 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 Martin Marietta Materials; 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 74.3% 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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