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Prudential Financial 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? The Prudential Financial plan’s funds that publish their votes have too few ballots on file, so here is Fidelity 500 Index Fund, the most common fund in the plans we track: answer 3 of its ballots, then see your result.

The question on the ballot

As filed

Prudential Financial 401(k) match and balances, from the filing

Company money in
about $5,240 per active participant
$85m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $18,420 each
$299m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$287,000
37,401 people with a balance
In the plan
$10.73bn
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 16,248 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 THE PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA as “THE PRUDENTIAL EMPLOYEE SAVINGS PLAN” · EIN 221211670, plan number 002 · search the filings

This is the only fund in the Prudential Financial retirement plan whose voting record we can trace, taken from the plan’s own annual filing. The figures show what it did with shareholder proposals.

SourceThe fund menu is the list of investments in Prudential Financial’s own annual retirement-plan filing · open the filing

FundClimateWorkersPay equityExec pay backed
PGIM Global Total Return Fund listed as “PGIM Global Total Return” —— ——

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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