Tracked deals
4
4 tracked deals across 2020-2026.
Greenwood Village, Colorado, United States
Empower provides retirement plan recordkeeping, administration, and wealth management solutions for employers and individual investors.
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
Last 4 years
Supporting Data
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.
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.
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.
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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