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Quaker Chemical 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? Vanguard Institutional Index Fund is the largest fund in the Quaker Chemical plan that publishes its votes. Answer 3 of its ballots from this season, then see your result.

The question on the ballot

As filed

Quaker Chemical 401(k) match and balances, from the filing

Company money in
about $5,850 per active participant
$7m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $9,290 each
$11m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$165,000
1,602 people with a balance
In the plan
$264m
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 1,185 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 QUAKER CHEMICAL CORPORATION as “QUAKER HOUGHTON RETIREMENT SAVINGS PLAN” · EIN 230993790, plan number 112 · search the filings

These are the funds in the Quaker Chemical 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 Quaker Chemical’s own annual retirement-plan filing · open the filing

FundClimateWorkersPay equityExec pay backed
Vanguard Institutional Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Institutional Index Fund Institutional Shares” 0 of 660 of 20 0 of 697.8%
Vanguard U.S. Growth Fund listed as “Vanguard U.S. Growth Fund Admiral Shares” 1 of 181 of 10 0 of 490.8%
Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Extended Market Index Fund Institutional Shares” 0 of 120 of 3 0 of 396.4%
Vanguard International Growth Fund listed as “Vanguard International Growth Fund Admiral Shares” 0 of 60 of 3 —91.4%
Vanguard Windsor II Fund listed as “Vanguard Windsor II Fund Admiral Shares” 0 of 300 of 10 0 of 396.9%
Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund listed as “Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund Admiral Shares” 0 of 950 of 10 0 of 483.1%

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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