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S&T Bancorp 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options

Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $123m of the $144m in the S&T 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

S&T Bancorp 401(k) match and balances, from the filing

Company money in
about $2,170 per active participant
$3m in plan year 2024
Employees saved
about $6,340 each
$8m in plan year 2024
Average balance
$89,600
1,433 people with a balance
In the plan
$128m
at the end of plan year 2024

Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 1,220 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 & T BANK as “THRIFT PLAN FOR EMPLOYEES OF S & T BANK” · EIN 250776600, plan number 002 · search the filings

The S&T Bancorp 401(k) holds $144m. Of the $123m 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&T Bancorp’s own annual retirement-plan filing with the SEC (Form 11-K, Schedule of Assets) · open the filing

What the plan holdsVehicleVoting recordValue
Dodge & Cox Balanced Xlisted as “Units” Collective trust or separate account NONE $28m
Fidelity 500 Indexlisted as “Units” Collective trust or separate account NONE $23m
S&T Bancorp, Inc. Common Stock*listed as “Shares” Not identified from the filing Not counted either way $14m
Fidelity Mid Cap Indexlisted as “Units” Collective trust or separate account NONE $14m
American Funds Fundamental Investors Fund R6listed as “Units” Collective trust or separate account NONE $12m
Vanguard Treasury Money Market Investor Shareslisted as “Shares” Money-market fund PUBLISHED $7m
Macquarie Small Cap Val R6listed as “Units” Collective trust or separate account NONE $5m
Fidelity International Indexlisted as “Units” Collective trust or separate account NONE $5m
American Funds 2035 Trgt Dt Ret R6listed as “Units” Collective trust or separate account NONE $5m
American Funds 2045 Trgt Dt Ret R6listed as “Units” Collective trust or separate account NONE $4m
American Funds 2030 Trgt Dt Ret R6listed as “Units” Collective trust or separate account NONE $4m
PIMCO Total Return Institutionallisted as “Units” Collective trust or separate account NONE $4m

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&T 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 S&T 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 90.3% 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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