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Original filing (PDF)20250714174029NAL0003156754001

ASHLAND INC.

Form 5500
FILING_RECEIVED
ASHLAND INC DEFINED BENEFIT MASTER TRUST
Pooled investment trusta fund that other plans invest in — not a participant plan
Active participants
Accounts w/ balance
Plan assets (EOY)
$74.9M
Net assets (EOY)
$74.9M
How this plan invests
2 plans
invest in this fund
This trust
pooled vehicle
Underlying securities
on this filing

This is a pooled fund: many plans invest in it, and it holds the underlying securities.

Master trust / DFE filing
Pooled investment vehicle

This filing is a Direct Filing Entity (DFE) — a master trust or collective investment trust that pools assets from multiple participating plans. It does not have plan participants of its own, and the Plan Health Score formula doesn’t apply. Individual participant-facing plans that invest in this trust are the appropriate target for fiduciary analysis.

Pooled assets (EOY)
$74.9M
Net assets (EOY)
$74.9M
Participating plans
2
latest filings citing this trust
Cited interest
$74.9M
across citing plans' latest filings

Cited interest vs pooled assets: cited interest sums what each participating plan reported holding in this trust, measured at that plan’s own year-end — and those filings span different years. Pooled assets is this single filing’s balance at one date. They’re independent measurements, so cited interest can land slightly above or below the pooled balance and won’t reconcile exactly.

Why no Schedule of Assets here? DFE holdings often live on the master trust’s own audited statement, not as a 4i schedule on the participating plans’ filings. We’re extending the parsing pipeline to cover DFE filings — see Methodology.

Decision-maker contacts
CFO / Head of HR / Benefits Manager — verified email + LinkedIn for ASHLAND INC..
Plan sponsor
Name
ASHLAND INC.
EIN
38-6949078
Address
500 HERCULES ROAD · BUILDING 8145 · WILMINGTON, DE · 19808
Phone
(844) 592-5322
Industry
Manufacturingsee all
Plan administrator
Same as plan sponsor.
Plan characteristics
Plan number
103
Plan year
2023
Plan year begin
2023-10-01
Tax period
2024-09-30
Filed
2025-07-14
Audit & trust (Schedule H)
Auditor
Trustee / custodian
Trustee phone

Service providers (Schedule C)

No Schedule C providers reported

Investments

10 pooled funds· $74.2M(99% of reported assets)

Rows tagged as a trust or pooled fund hold many underlying securities. Click one to drill into its own Schedule of Assets — where the individual funds, shares, and CUSIPs live.

InvestmentTypeCurrent value% of plan
MERCER US LRG CAP CR PE
MERCER TRUST COMPANY LLC · EIN 03-0566613 / PN 005
Common Collective Trust
$15.2M20.2%
MERCER OPP FI
MERCER TRUST COMPANY LLC · EIN 36-7630030 / PN 020
Common Collective Trust
$13.1M17.5%
MERCER ACT LNG CORP FI
MERCER TRUST COMPANY LLC · EIN 45-6178743 / PN 004
Common Collective Trust
$12.3M16.5%
SS REAL ASSET NL SERIES CL A
STATE STREET GLOBAL ADVISORS TRUST COMPANY · EIN 90-0337987 / PN 374
Common Collective Trust
$10.3M13.7%
MERCER NON US CORE EQ
MERCER TRUST COMPANY LLC · EIN 03-0566617 / PN 009
Common Collective Trust
$7.5M10.0%
MERCER ULT LNG DURATION
MERCER TRUST COMPANY LLC · EIN 83-2461327 / PN 047
Common Collective Trust
$7.1M9.5%
MERCER EMERGING MKTS EQ
MERCER TRUST COMPANY LLC · EIN 32-6219484 / PN 017
Common Collective Trust
$3.3M4.4%
MERCER US SM MID CAP EQ
MERCER TRUST COMPANY LLC · EIN 03-0566611 / PN 003
Common Collective Trust
$2.3M3.1%
MERCER LNG STRIPS FI
MERCER TRUST COMPANY LLC · EIN 80-6243236 / PN 019
Common Collective Trust
$1.9M2.6%
MERCER GL LOW VOLTLTY EQ
MERCER TRUST COMPANY LLC · EIN 35-7004395 / PN 018
Common Collective Trust
$1.1M1.5%

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