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Southwest Gas Holdings 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options
Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $440m of the $693m in the Southwest Gas Holdings 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
Southwest Gas Holdings 401(k) match and balances, from the filing
- Company money in
- about $3,970 per active participant
- $10m in plan year 2024
- Employees saved
- about $11,210 each
- $27m in plan year 2024
- Average balance
- $202,700
- 2,959 people with a balance
- In the plan
- $600m
- at the end of plan year 2024
Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 2,450 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 SOUTHWEST GAS CORPORATION as “SOUTHWEST GAS CORPORATION EMPLOYEES' INVESTMENT PLAN” · EIN 880085720, plan number 004 · search the filings
The Southwest Gas Holdings 401(k) holds $693m. Of the $440m 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.
SourceSouthwest Gas Holdings’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fidelity Investmentslisted as “Contrafund Pool Class A **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $144m |
| Fidelity Investmentslisted as “500 Index **” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $74m |
| Southwest Gas Holdings, Inc.listed as “Company common stock ( 753,876 shares) **” | Employer stock | Voted by the plan trustee | $60m |
| Fidelity Investmentslisted as “Freedom 2040 Commingled Pool Class D **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $38m |
| Fidelity Investmentslisted as “Freedom 2030 Commingled Pool Class D **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $37m |
| Fidelity Investmentslisted as “Freedom 2045 Commingled Pool Class D **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $32m |
| Fidelity Investmentslisted as “Low-Priced Stock Fund Class K **” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $28m |
| Fidelity Investmentslisted as “Freedom 2035 Commingled Pool Class D **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $27m |
| T. Rowe Pricelisted as “Stable Value Common Trust Fund A **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $27m |
| Fidelity Investmentslisted as “Freedom 2050 Commingled Pool Class D **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $27m |
| Vanguard Group, Inc.listed as “International Growth Fund Admiral Shares **” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $25m |
| T. Rowe Pricelisted as “Institutional Large Cap Value Fund **” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $24m |
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 Southwest Gas Holdings 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 Southwest Gas Holdings; 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 73.5% 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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