Genworth Financial, Inc. Retirement and Savings Plan
Notes to Financial Statements
December 31, 2020 and 2019
Each participant’s account is credited with his or her contributions, the Company’s matching and supplemental contributions and the earnings or losses based on their individual fund elections. Each participant is entitled to the benefits that can be provided from his or her vested account.
Participants hired after December 31, 2010, and who have no recognized service with the Company before January 1, 2011, must attain two years of service to reach full vesting on Company matching contributions. Company supplemental contributions are fully vested after three years of service. Participants hired before January 1, 2011 or re-hired after December 31, 2010 with any recognized service before January 1, 2011 were immediately vested in their account balances excluding their supplemental contribution accounts. Forfeitures are used to reduce future employer contributions to the Plan. Forfeitures available to reduce future employer contributions as of December 31, 2020 and 2019 were $19,667 and $26,802, respectively, and forfeitures used to reduce employer contributions were $598,308 and $635,325 in 2020 and 2019, respectively.
Participants are permitted to allocate their account balances to one or more of 17 investment options currently available under the Plan. The Fiduciary & Investments Committee determines the Plan’s investment offerings and generally monitors investment performance. Participants may change investment options for future contributions as frequently as daily, and subject to time constraints by certain investment managers, may initiate transfers among investments daily. Direct transfers from the T. Rowe Price Stable Value Common Trust Fund to the BlackRock Short-Term Investment Fund are not permitted. Instead, participants who wish to transfer from the T. Rowe Price Stable Value Common Trust Fund to the BlackRock Short-Term Investment Fund must first transfer to one of the other Plan investment options and remain in that option for 90 days before transferring into the BlackRock Short-Term Investment Fund.
The Genworth Common Stock Fund invests primarily in common stock of the Company. A small portion of the fund is held in cash or other short-term investments to provide liquidity. Within the notes to financial statements and supplemental schedule of assets (held at end of year), the assets of the fund are presented separately as common stock of Genworth Financial, Inc. and short-term investments.
The performance of the Genworth Common Stock Fund has been influenced over the past several years by the proposed acquisition of Genworth by China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co., Ltd (China Oceanwide), among other factors. On October 21, 2016, the Company entered into an agreement and plan of merger (Merger Agreement) with Asia Pacific Global Capital Co., Ltd., a limited liability company incorporated in the People’s Republic of China and a subsidiary of China Oceanwide, and Asia Pacific Global Capital USA Corporation (Merger Sub), a Delaware corporation and a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Asia Pacific Insurance USA Holdings LLC (Asia Pacific Insurance), which is a Delaware limited liability company and owned by China Oceanwide, pursuant to which, subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein, Merger Sub would merge with and into Genworth, with Genworth surviving the merger as a direct, wholly-owned subsidiary of Asia Pacific Insurance.
On April 6, 2021, Genworth’s Board of Directors determined to terminate the Merger Agreement, based on its belief that China Oceanwide would not be able to close the transaction within a reasonable timeframe and in order for Genworth to pursue its strategic plan without restriction and without uncertainty regarding its ultimate ownership.
Prior to January 2021, employees had the option of purchasing the Genworth Common Stock Fund. The Plan had contracted with Newport Trust Company (Newport) to act as an independent fiduciary and investment manager with respect to Genworth stock in the Plan. On January 8, 2021, Newport froze the Genworth Common Stock Fund due to uncertainty around the closing of the China Oceanwide transaction and the feasibility of Genworth executing other strategic plans. Accordingly, future investments or transfers into the fund were suspended indefinitely.
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