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Stanley Black & Decker 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options
Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $1.35bn of the $2.58bn in the Stanley Black & Decker 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
Stanley Black & Decker 401(k) match and balances, from the filing
- Company money in
- about $2,170 per active participant
- $35m in plan year 2024
- Employees saved
- about $5,550 each
- $89m in plan year 2024
- Average balance
- $94,200
- 26,180 people with a balance
- In the plan
- $2.47bn
- at the end of plan year 2024
Company money is the match plus any other employer contributions, averaged over all 16,084 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 STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC. as “STANLEY BLACK & DECKER RETIREMENT ACCOUNT PLAN” · EIN 060548860, plan number 009 · search the filings
The Stanley Black & Decker 401(k) holds $2.58bn. Of the $1.35bn 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.
SourceStanley Black & Decker’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mellon Capital Management Corporationlisted as “S&P 500 Index Fund **” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $556m |
| Blackrock Institutional Trust Companylisted as “Lifepath Index 2035 Fund **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $215m |
| Blackrock Institutional Trust Companylisted as “Lifepath Index 2040 Fund **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $212m |
| Blackrock Institutional Trust Companylisted as “Lifepath Index 2030 Fund **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $186m |
| Blackrock Institutional Trust Companylisted as “Lifepath Index Retirement Fund **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $174m |
| Blackrock Institutional Trust Companylisted as “Lifepath Index 2045 Fund **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $152m |
| Blackrock Institutional Trust Companylisted as “Lifepath Index 2050 Fund **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $148m |
| State Street Global Advisorslisted as “U.S. Extended Market Fund **” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $132m |
| Blackrock Institutional Trust Companylisted as “Lifepath Index 2055 Fund **” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $115m |
| State Street Global Advisorslisted as “U.S. Total Market Index Fund **” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $106m |
| Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.*listed as “1,215,828 shares of Common Stock; par value $ 2.50 per share **” | Employer stock | Voted by the plan trustee | $90m |
| Neuberger Bermanlisted as “Genesis Fund **” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $67m |
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 Stanley Black & Decker 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 Stanley Black & Decker; 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 59.9% 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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