Empower Financial

Empower Financial provides fee-only financial planning and investment consultation to a mix of individual clients, trusts, estates, retirement plans and small businesses, and also accepts engagements from a range of institutional and organizational clients including corporate entities, pension and profit-sharing plans, charitable organizations, other investment advisers, banks, insurance companies, state and municipal governments, and even a sovereign wealth fund. The firm offers project-based comprehensive financial plans and ongoing hourly planning but does not provide asset management, custody, or discretionary trading on client accounts.

The firm’s investment approach uses a Core + Satellite framework that blends low-cost, passive holdings with selective active or satellite positions and may include recommendations for alternative investments (real estate partnerships, private placements, venture capital, hedge funds, and digital assets) where appropriate; the advisor develops client risk profiles, recommends asset allocations and detailed trade lists, and assists with custodian selection while clients generally implement trades themselves. Financial planning topics routinely covered include retirement and tax planning, employee equity compensation, college funding, cash flow and debt management, risk management and estate planning, with follow-up meetings to review implementation.

Noteworthy for a solo, state-registered advisory of this size, the firm reports relationships with several types of institutional and non‑profit clients that are atypical among peers, and it also accepts engagements from other investment advisers — arrangements that are uncommon for independent one‑advisor firms. The principal holds CFP® certification and a technology-industry background and serves in a volunteer board/treasurer role for a nonprofit, and the firm’s business model emphasizes advice-for-fee engagements rather than percentage-of-AUM billing or custody of client assets.