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Fully Benefit-Responsive Investment Contracts With Financial Institutions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
EBP 002 [Member]  
Fully Benefit-Responsive Investment Contracts With Financial Institutions [Line Items]  
Fully Benefit-Responsive Investment Contracts With Financial Institutions FULLY BENEFIT-RESPONSIVE INVESTMENT CONTRACTS WITH FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
 
The Plan’s Stable Value Fund (the Fund) is composed primarily of Synthetic Guaranteed Investment Contracts (GICs).
 
Synthetic GICs.  A Synthetic GIC is an investment contract issued by an insurance company or other financial institution, also known as a wrap contract, backed by a portfolio of bonds or other fixed income securities that are owned by the Fund.  The assets underlying the contract are maintained separate from the issuer’s general assets, usually by the Fund’s trustee or a third party custodian.  The contracts are obligated to provide an interest rate not less than zero.

The assets underlying the contracts consist of commingled funds sponsored by Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM), Loomis Sayles, or IR+M.  The contract value of the Synthetic GICs at December 31, 2025 and 2024 was $558,208,215 and $592,126,682, respectively.
 
Primary variables impacting future crediting rates of the Synthetic GICs include current yield of the assets within the contract, duration of the assets covered by the contract, and existing difference between the fair value and contract value of the assets within the contract.  Synthetic GICs are designed to reset the respective crediting rate, typically on a monthly basis.  These contracts provide that realized and unrealized gains and losses on the underlying assets are not reflected immediately in the assets of the Fund, but rather are amortized, over the duration of the underlying assets or other agreed upon period, through adjustments to the future interest crediting rates.  The issuer guarantees that all qualified participant withdrawals will occur at contract value, which represents contributions made under the contract, plus credited interest, less withdrawals made under the contract and administrative expenses.
 
Events Limiting Ability to Receive Contract Value.  Certain events limit the ability of the Plan to transact at contract value with the issuer.  While the events may differ from contract to contract, the events typically include: (i) amendments to the Plan documents; (ii) changes to the Plan’s prohibition on competing investment options or deletion of equity wash provisions; (iii) complete or partial termination of the Plan or its merger with another plan; (iv) the failure of the Plan or its trust to qualify for exemption from federal income taxes or any required prohibited transaction exemption under ERISA; (v) unless made in
accordance with the withdrawal provisions of the Plan, the withdrawal from the wrap contract at the direction of TRV, including withdrawals due to the removal of a specifically identifiable group of employees from coverage under the Plan (such as a group layoff or early retirement incentive program), or the closing or sale of a subsidiary, employing unit or affiliate, the bankruptcy or insolvency of the Company, or the Company’s establishment of another tax qualified defined contribution plan; (vi) the establishment of an employee benefit plan in which Plan participants are eligible to participate; (vii) any change in law, regulation, ruling, administrative or judicial position or accounting requirement, in any case applicable to the Plan or Fund; (viii) the delivery of any communication to Plan participants designed to influence a participant not to invest in the Fund; or, (ix) if it is no longer permissible to account for one or more benefit-responsive agreements held in the Fund on a contract value basis under certain circumstances.  At this time, the Company does not believe that the occurrence of any events, such as those described above, which would limit the Plan’s ability to transact at contract value with participants, is probable.
 
Contract Termination.  Synthetic GIC wrap contracts generally are evergreen contracts that permit termination upon notice at any time, and provide for automatic termination if the contract value or the fair value of the underlying assets equals zero.  If the fair value equals zero, the issuer of the wrap contract is obligated to pay the difference between the fair value and the contract value.

If the Fund defaults in its obligations under the contract and the default is not cured within a cure period, the issuer may terminate the contract and the Fund will retain the fair value of the underlying assets as of the date of termination.  The Synthetic GICs generally permit the issuer or investment manager to convert the wrapped portfolio to a declining duration strategy, in which case the contract would terminate at a date that corresponds to the duration of the underlying fixed income portfolio on the date of an amortization election (Amortization Election).  After the effective date of an Amortization Election, the fixed income portfolio must conform to the guidelines agreed upon by the issuer and the investment manager for the Amortization Election period. Such guidelines are intended to result in the fair value equaling or exceeding the contract value of the wrapped portfolio by such termination date.  The Fund may make an Amortization Election if the contract permits the issuer to terminate at fair value, the issuer terminates the contract, and the contract provides for such an Amortization Election.
 
The Synthetic GICs are placed with financial institutions that have been approved by GSAM Stable Value, LLC’s credit review process. Currently, the Stable Value Fund’s wrap contract issuers have a Standard & Poor’s credit rating of A+ or equivalent or higher. Additionally, a minimum Standard & Poor’s average credit rating of AA- or equivalent is required at purchase for the issuers of the underlying fixed income investments.