Whether you're interacting with our participant services center or working with an Empower relationship manager, we strive to provide service excellence focused on results.
- Participant services
- Relationship management
- Individualized training
Products and services
Innovation drives everything we do — and everything we do has a singular focus on helping people achieve financial independence. We push beyond the status quo to deliver outstanding products, service excellence and retirement solutions that others can't — or won't.
Service
Technology
Our innovative tools can help you engage your employees and manage your plan more easily.
- Plan Service Center
- Participant website
- Proprietary recordkeeping platform
Investment options
Take your plan to the next level with our open-architecture platform, which includes customized investment products and advisory services.
- Great-West funds
- Great-West Lifetime target date funds
- Capital preservation products
- Empower Retirement Advisory Services1
- Empower Dynamic Retirement Manager™2
Plan administration
Easily manage your plan by tapping into our industry knowledge and expertise.
- Administrative services
- ERISA and non-ERISA
- Regulatory and compliance
Customized retirement strategy
Empower Retirement Advisory Services can help you meet your fiduciary obligations and provide personalized recommendations and strategies to help your employees reach their retirement goals.
There is no guarantee provided by any party that participation in any of the Advisory Services will result in a profit.
Financial wellness
Our approach to education includes providing employees with information, resources and solutions that help them take control of their finances.
- Personal consultations
- Health and wealth solutions
- Helpful financial information
Enhanced benefit services
We can help you create a benefits program that is tailored to the needs of your employees.
- Nonqualified deferred compensation plans
- Defined benefit plans
- Total benefit integration
Retirement solutions
We offer industry-leading solutions for consolidating assets and protecting the tax-deferred status of employee funds for those who join or leave your company.
Public policy
It's our responsibility to serve as your advocate and to influence positive change in Washington, D.C., regarding retirement issues and regulations.
Contact Empower to learn how we can help your employees
Empower health savings account (Empower HSA)
Empower and Optum®, one of the nation's health services industry leaders, have partnered to deliver an integrated, end-to-end health and wealth solution.
Empower HSA is simple to manage and allows employers a way to help their employees plan for future retirement healthcare costs.
Best-in-class awards
PLANSPONSOR participant and sponsor awards3
From developing the right participant experience on our website, to how we provide call center support, to how we work with regulators and legislators — everything we do is centered on our clients' needs.Edmund F. Murphy III President, Empower Retirement
1 Online advice and the managed account service are part of the Empower Retirement Advisory Services suite of services offered by Advised Assets Group, LLC, a registered investment adviser.
2 The managed account service offered through Empower Dynamic Retirement Manager™ is provided by AAG.
3 Based on best-in-class awards from PLANSPONSOR 2017 DC Survey, February 2018.
Investments are not FDIC insured, are not guaranteed by Optum Bank® and may lose value.
Educational, communication and operational services regarding Empower HSA may be provided by registered representatives of GWFS. By electing Empower HSA, plan participants are contracting directly with Optum and its affiliates for this service. GWL&A, or its subsidiaries or affiliates, is not affiliated with Optum and is not responsible for their services.
Health savings accounts (HSAs) are individual accounts offered or administered by Optum Bank®, Member FDIC, and are subject to eligibility and restrictions, including but not limited to restrictions on distributions for qualified medical expenses set forth in section 213(d) of the Internal Revenue Code. State taxes may apply. Fees may reduce earnings on account. This communication is not intended as legal or tax advice. Please contact a competent legal or tax professional for personal advice on eligibility, tax treatment and restrictions. Federal and state laws and regulations are subject to change.
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