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Orange County Bancorp 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $30m of the $35m in the Orange County Bancorp 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

The Orange County Bancorp 401(k) holds $35m. Of the $30m we could identify from the plan’s own filing, 99% sits in funds that publish no record of how they voted your shares — collective trusts, which unlike a mutual fund file no Form N-PX and leave no public trace of a single vote.

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

What the plan holdsVehicleVoting recordValue
STATE STREET GLOBAL ADV TRUST COlisted as “Common/Collective Trust SSGA SP 500 IDX SEC LND SER II” Collective trust or separate account NONE $7m
STATE STREET GLOBAL ADV TRUST COlisted as “Common/Collective Trust SSGA TARGET RET 2030 SEC LD IV” Collective trust or separate account NONE $5m
ORANGE COUNTY BANCORPlisted as “Employer Security ORANGE COUNTY BANCORP STOCK” Employer stock Voted by the plan trustee $4m
STATE STREET GLOBAL ADV TRUST COlisted as “Common/Collective Trust SSGA TARGET RET 2035 SEC LD IV” Collective trust or separate account NONE $2m
STATE STREET GLOBAL ADV TRUST COlisted as “Common/Collective Trust SSGA SP MCP ID SEC LND SRS XIV” Collective trust or separate account NONE $2m
Reliance Trust Companylisted as “Common/Collective Trust METLIFE SV FD SER 25053 CL 0” Collective trust or separate account NONE $2m
STATE STREET GLOBAL ADV TRUST COlisted as “Common/Collective Trust SSGA TARGET RET 2040 SEC LD IV” Collective trust or separate account NONE $2m
STATE STREET GLOBAL ADV TRUST COlisted as “Common/Collective Trust SSGA TARGET RET 2025 SEC LD IV” Collective trust or separate account NONE $2m
STATE STREET GLOBAL ADV TRUST COlisted as “Common/Collective Trust SSGA TARGET RET 2045 SEC LD IV” Collective trust or separate account NONE $1m
GREAT GRAY TRUST COMPANYlisted as “Common/Collective Trust LARGE CAP GROWTH I1 FUND” Collective trust or separate account NONE $1m
STATE STREET GLOBAL ADV TRUST COlisted as “Interest Bearing Cash SS CASH SER US GOVT FD CL G” Collective trust or separate account NONE $1m
STATE STREET GLOBAL ADV TRUST COlisted as “Common/Collective Trust SSGA TARGET RET 2050 SEC LD IV” Collective trust or separate account NONE $970,630

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 Orange County Bancorp 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 Orange County Bancorp; 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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