Public Company Financial Services

Empower Retirement

Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States

Empower provides retirement plan recordkeeping, administration, and wealth management solutions for employers and individual investors.

Focus Areas
Retirement plan recordkeeping and administration, Defined contribution / defined benefit plan services, Stable value and separate account investment products
Website
empower.com

Tracked deals

4

4 tracked deals across 2020-2026.

Recent pace

1

1 tracked deal announced in the last 12 months.

Deal mix

Buyout

3 buyout · 1 divestiture

Empower Retirement Acquisition Volume by Year

Last 4 years

Acquisition volume by year Annual acquisition counts for the last 4 years for Empower Retirement. 1 2020 1 2022 1 2024 ~1 est. 1 2026
Actual Full-year estimate

Supporting Data

Recent Transactions

  • Buyer
    Empower, Great-West Lifeco Inc.
    Target
    Milliman, Inc.'s retirement administration business
    Seller
    Milliman, Inc.
    Type
    Buyout

    Empower, a subsidiary of Great-West Lifeco, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Milliman, Inc.’s retirement administration business for $340 million. The deal is expected to expand Empower’s defined benefit capabilities and add defined contribution and health & welfare administration services, with the target business including about 800 employees.

  • Buyer
    Empower
    Target
    Plan Management Corporation (OptionTrax)
    Type
    Buyout

    Empower has acquired Plan Management Corporation (PMC), the creator of the OptionTrax equity compensation administration platform, and will integrate the platform into its digital wealth and retirement offerings. The OptionTrax platform — used by more than 300 employers and representing approximately $62 billion in equity compensation plan value — will be rebranded as "OptionTrax by Empower" and operated under the newly formed Empower Stock Plan Services, LLC.

  • Buyer
    Empower
    Target
    Prudential Financial's full-service retirement business
    Seller
    Prudential Financial, Inc.

    Empower has completed its $3.5 billion acquisition of Prudential Financial’s full-service retirement business, adding more than 1,800 employees and expanding Empower’s reach to over 17.1 million retirement participants with roughly $1.4 trillion in assets under administration. The deal transfers Prudential’s defined contribution, defined benefit, non‑qualified and rollover IRA business as well as stable value and separate account investment products and platforms to Empower, broadening Empower’s product set and scale across employer, government and not‑for‑profit retirement markets.

  • Buyer
    Empower Retirement
    Target
    Personal Capital
    Type
    Buyout

    Empower Retirement has acquired digital wealth manager Personal Capital for up to $1 billion in enterprise value (approximately $825 million at closing plus up to $175 million for growth). The acquisition combines Empower's retirement plan services with Personal Capital's digital-first financial planning and wealth management platform to deliver integrated digital and human advice to retirement plan participants and individual investors.

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