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Us Bancorp 401(k) retirement plan: the investment options
Does your 401(k) vote the way you would? $10.28bn of the $12.73bn in the Us 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
The Us Bancorp 401(k) holds $12.73bn. Of the $10.28bn 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.
SourceUs Bancorp’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vanguardlisted as “11,125,856 shares Institutional 500 Index Trust” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $3.31bn |
| Vanguardlisted as “6,287,932 shares Developed Markets Index Fund” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $994m |
| Vanguardlisted as “4,209,647 shares Institutional Extended Market Index Trust” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $882m |
| Vanguardlisted as “5,532,807 shares Target Retirement Trust Select 2045” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $878m |
| Vanguardlisted as “5,854,846 shares Target Retirement Trust Select 2035” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $878m |
| Vanguardlisted as “5,219,271 shares Target Retirement Trust Select 2040” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $806m |
| U.S. Bancorp (1)listed as “14,670,720 shares Common stock” | Not identified from the filing | Not counted either way | $783m |
| Vanguardlisted as “5,305,533 shares Target Retirement Trust Select 2030” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $772m |
| Vanguardlisted as “4,149,972 shares Target Retirement Trust Select 2050” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $675m |
| Vanguardlisted as “4,702,160 shares Institutional Total Bond Market Index Trust” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $549m |
| Vanguardlisted as “3,323,615 shares Target Retirement Trust Select 2025” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $467m |
| Vanguardlisted as “2,346,934 shares Target Retirement Trust Select 2055” | Collective trust or separate account | NONE | $382m |
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 Us 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 Us 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 83.6% 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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