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S&P Global 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options
Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $4.24bn of the $6.10bn in the S&P Global 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
S&P Global 401(k) match and balances, from the filing
- Company money in
- about $12,070 per active participant
- $124m in plan year 2024
- Employees saved
- about $16,300 each
- $168m in plan year 2024
- Average balance
- $285,000
- 20,152 people with a balance
- In the plan
- $5.74bn
- at the end of plan year 2024
Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 10,289 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 S&P GLOBAL, INC. as “THE 401(K) SAVINGS AND PROFIT SHARING PLAN OF S&P GLOBAL INC. AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES” · EIN 131026995, plan number 002 · search the filings
The S&P Global 401(k) holds $6.10bn. Of the $4.24bn 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.
SourceS&P Global’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northern Trust Investmentslisted as “S&P 500 Index Fund #” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $1.70bn |
| S&P Global, Inc.listed as “SPGI Company Stock Fund #” | Employer stock | Voted by the plan trustee | $534m |
| State Street Bank & Trust Co.listed as “Target Retirement 2030 P #” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $311m |
| State Street Bank & Trust Co.listed as “Target Retirement 2035 P #” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $308m |
| State Street Bank & Trust Co.listed as “Target Retirement 2045 P #” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $306m |
| State Street Bank & Trust Co.listed as “Target Retirement 2040 P #” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $301m |
| State Street Bank & Trust Co.listed as “Target Retirement 2050 P #” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $266m |
| State Street Global Advisorslisted as “S&P MidCap Index Fund #” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $256m |
| BlackRock Institutional Trust Companylisted as “Money Market Fund #” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $229m |
| State Street Bank & Trust Co.listed as “Target Retirement 2055 P #” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $180m |
| State Street Bank & Trust Co.listed as “Target Retirement 2025 P #” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $170m |
| State Street Bank & Trust Co.listed as “Target Retirement P #” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $164m |
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 S&P Global 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 S&P Global; 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 79.5% 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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