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Merit Medical Systems 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? Fidelity 500 Index Fund is the largest fund in the Merit Medical Systems plan that publishes its votes. Answer 3 of its ballots from this season, then see your result.

The question on the ballot

As filed

Merit Medical Systems 401(k) match and balances, from the filing

Company money in
about $1,500 per active participant
$5m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $4,110 each
$14m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$96,400
2,251 people with a balance
In the plan
$217m
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 3,324 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 MERIT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. as “MERIT MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC. 401(K) PROFIT SHARING PLAN” · EIN 870447695, plan number 001 · search the filings

These are the funds in the Merit Medical Systems retirement plan whose voting records we can trace, taken from the plan’s own annual filing. The figures show what each one did with shareholder proposals.

SourceThe fund menu is the list of investments in Merit Medical Systems’s own annual retirement-plan filing · open the filing

FundClimateWorkersPay equityExec pay backed
Fidelity 500 Index Fund listed as “Fidelity Spartan 500 Index” 0 of 660 of 20 0 of 696.8%
Fidelity Mid Cap Index Fund listed as “Fidelity Mid Cap Index” 0 of 240 of 2 0 of 395.9%
Wasatch Small Cap Value Fund listed as “Wasatch Small Cap Value Fund” —— —95%
Fidelity Small Cap Index Fund listed as “Fidelity Small Cap Index” 0 of 20 of 2 0 of 292.8%
T. Rowe Price Mid-Cap Growth Fund, Inc. listed as “T Rowe Price Mid Cap Growth Fund” 0 of 1— —93.5%
Fidelity International Index Fund listed as “Fidelity International Index” 0 of 320 of 4 0 of 290.4%
Janus Henderson Triton Fund listed as “Janus Triton N” 0 of 1— —94.3%
Fidelity Emerging Markets Fund listed as “Fidelity Emerging Markets Fund” 0 of 2— —73.3%
Cohen & Steers Institutional Realty Shares listed as “Cohen & Steers Realty Shares” 0 of 1— —88.6%
Fidelity Emerging Markets Index Fund listed as “Fidelity Emerging Markets Index” —— —35.3%

What this means for you

Most people are in whichever fund their plan made the default, and never look again. The figures above are the part nobody shows you when you pick: not the fee, not last year's return, but what the fund did with the shares your savings paid for.

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