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Millerknoll 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $906m of the $1.43bn in the Millerknoll 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

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

Company money in
about $3,180 per active participant
$22m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $6,960 each
$49m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$145,300
9,843 people with a balance
In the plan
$1.43bn
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 7,001 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 MILLERKNOLL, INC. as “MILLERKNOLL RETIREMENT PLAN” · EIN 380837640, plan number 002 · search the filings

The Millerknoll 401(k) holds $1.43bn. Of the $906m 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.

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

What the plan holdsVehicleVoting recordValue
Harbor Fundslisted as “Harbor Capital Appreciation Fund **” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $188m
Northern Trust Global Investmentslisted as “S P 500 Index Fund **” Collective trust or separate account NONE $140m
Putnam Fiduciary Trust Companylisted as “Stable Value Fund **” Collective trust or separate account NONE $108m
Vanguardlisted as “Retirement 2035 Trust I **” Collective trust or separate account NONE $87m
Vanguardlisted as “Retirement 2030 Trust I **” Collective trust or separate account NONE $76m
BlackRocklisted as “Black Rock Equity Dividend Fund I Class **” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $71m
Vanguardlisted as “Retirement 2040 Trust I **” Collective trust or separate account NONE $68m
Dodge Coxlisted as “Total Income Fund **” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $64m
Vanguardlisted as “Retirement 2045 Trust I **” Collective trust or separate account NONE $60m
Vanguardlisted as “Retirement 2050 Trust I **” Collective trust or separate account NONE $59m
Vanguardlisted as “Retirement 2025 Trust I **” Collective trust or separate account NONE $55m
Vanguardlisted as “Small Cap Growth Index Fund **” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $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 Millerknoll 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 Millerknoll; 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 67% 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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