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Occidental Petroleum 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options
Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $3.38bn of the $3.92bn in the Occidental Petroleum 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
Occidental Petroleum 401(k) match and balances, from the filing
- Company money in
- about $10,740 per active participant
- $102m in plan year 2024
- Employees saved
- about $14,760 each
- $141m in plan year 2024
- Average balance
- $277,100
- 12,759 people with a balance
- In the plan
- $3.54bn
- at the end of plan year 2024
Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 9,533 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 OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION as “OCCIDENTAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION SAVINGS PLAN” · EIN 954035997, plan number 001 · search the filings
The Occidental Petroleum 401(k) holds $3.92bn. Of the $3.38bn 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.
SourceOccidental Petroleum’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxy Defined Contribution Plan Master Trust Accountlisted as “Participation in master trust agreement” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $3.14bn |
| Occidental Petroleum Corporation (2)listed as “Common stock, 12,385,694 shares” | Employer stock | Voted by the plan trustee | $509m |
| Guaranteed Investment Contracts Master Trustlisted as “Master trust investment account, 10,379,779 units” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $230m |
| Notes receivable from participantslisted as “2,319 participant loans, various maturities ranged from January 2026 to November 2035, interest rates range from 3 % to 11 %, balances collateralized by participant account” | Participant loans | No shares to vote | $31m |
| BNY Short-Term Investment Fund (2)listed as “A collective trust investing in short-term securities, 10,144,328 units” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $10m |
The 5 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 Occidental Petroleum 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 Occidental Petroleum; 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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