Your 401(k) owns hundreds of companies. Someone else votes the shares.
Stock votes — on emissions targets, executive severance, warehouse safety, political spending, who chairs the board. Thousands of those votes are cast every year with the shares your savings paid for, and nobody asks you. Vote a few yourself and see what your fund did.
No sign-up. Nothing saved. Start on the fund most plans default to, or find your own.
How would you have voted?
Real proposals, real numbers, and what your fund actually did with them.
The question on the ballot
What it asked, and the record it comes from
What it asked the company to do
Our plain-English summary of the proposal. The filing records the ballot line, not the full resolution — the exact wording it does record is below.
Use the buttons, or ← against and → for. On a phone, drag the card.
Three filings, joined together
That is the whole trick. Nothing here is estimated, and every figure links to the document it came from.
01
Your plan lists its funds
Every employer plan of any size files its investment menu once a year. That is the set of funds you can actually pick from.
02
Each fund reports how it voted
Funds must record every proxy vote they cast — the company, the date, the proposal and which way they went.
03
And what it holds
A separate filing lists every company the fund owns and how much of it, which is how your share of each one is worked out.
Not your fund?
Search the 37 employer plans we have indexed, or read the fund names straight off a 401(k) screenshot.
The record
Every fund we have indexed, on the issue selected above — how many of the plans it appears in, and what it did with the proposals filed on that issue.
You can change who decides
Vanguard and BlackRock now let eligible investors pick a different voting policy for the funds they hold, so the shares your savings paid for get voted the way you would vote them.
Find your employer
We have the fund menus for these plans. Don't see yours? Upload a screenshot instead.
Upload your statement
We read the fund names and nothing else. The image never leaves your browser and is not saved. Crop out your name and balance if you like — they aren't needed.
Nothing to hand? These are invented accounts in three layouts a 401(k) really arrives in. Tap one and it goes through exactly the same reader your own screenshot would — the counts below are what it managed last time we measured, not a promise.
Which fund is your money in?
What your money owns
Only used to scale the numbers beside it. Nothing is saved.
Your result
You can change who decides
Vanguard and BlackRock now let eligible investors pick a different voting policy for the funds they hold — so the shares your savings paid for get voted the way you'd vote them. Eligibility depends on the fund and the account, and neither programme covers every fund.
Sources Vanguard Investor Choice · BlackRock Voting Choice
In a finished product this would check whether your specific fund is eligible and walk you through switching. Your answers are held in this browser only.
Get told before the next vote
Votes happen every spring. We'll tell you what's on your fund's ballot while you can still say something about it.
Saved in this browser for the demo — no email is sent.