Empower International Index Fund

EMPOWER FUNDS, INC.
(“Empower Funds”)

Empower International Index Fund
Institutional Class Ticker: MXPBX
Investor Class Ticker: MXINX
(the “Fund”)

Summary Prospectus
April 30, 2024

Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s Prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its

risks. You can find the Fund’s Prospectus and other information about the Fund, including the Statement of Additional

Information and most recent reports to shareholders, online at www.empower.com/investments/empower-funds/fund-

documents. You can also get this information at no cost by calling (866) 831-7129 or by sending an email request to

empowerfunds@empower.com. The current Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information, both dated April 30, 2024,

are incorporated by reference as a matter of law into this Summary Prospectus, which means they are legally part of this

Summary Prospectus.

Fund shares are sold to insurance company separate accounts for certain variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance

policies (“variable contracts”), to individual retirement account (“IRA”) custodians or trustees, to plan sponsors of qualified

retirement plans (“retirement plans”), and to college savings programs (collectively, “Permitted Accounts”), and to asset

allocation funds that are series of Empower Funds. This Summary Prospectus is not intended for use by other investors. This

Summary Prospectus should be read together with the prospectus or disclosure document for the Permitted Account.

Investment Objective

The Fund seeks investment results, before fees and expenses, that track the total return of the common stocks that comprise the MSCI EAFE (Europe, Australasia, Far East) Index (the “Benchmark Index”).

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Fund. This table does not reflect the fees and expenses of any Permitted Account. If the fees and expenses of a Permitted Account were reflected, the fees and expenses shown below would be higher.

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

	Institutional Class	Investor Class
Management Fees	0.23%	0.23%
Distribution and Service (12b-1) Fees	0.00%	0.00%
Total Other Expenses	0.02%	0.38%
Shareholder Services Fees	0.00%	0.35%
Other Expenses	0.02%	0.03%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses	0.25%	0.61%

Example

This Example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Example does not reflect the fees and expenses of any Permitted Account. If the fees and expenses of any Permitted Account were reflected, the fees and expenses in the Example would be higher.

The Example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of each period. The Example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, that all dividends and capital gains are reinvested, and that the Fund’s operating expenses are the amount shown in the fee table and remain the same for the years shown. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions, your costs would be:

	1 Year	3 Years	5 Years	10 Years
Institutional Class	$26	$80	$141	$318
Investor Class	$62	$195	$340	$762

Portfolio Turnover

The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate generally indicates higher transaction costs. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s turnover rate was 19% of the average value of its portfolio.

Principal Investment Strategies

Below is a summary of the principal investment strategies of the Fund.

The Fund is not actively managed but is designed to track the performance of its Benchmark Index. The Fund will, under normal circumstances, invest at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in common stocks of the companies included in the Benchmark Index or in derivative securities economically related to the Benchmark Index. The Benchmark Index is designed to represent the performance of large and mid cap securities across 21 developed markets, including countries in Europe, Australasia and the Far East, excluding the U.S. and Canada.

The Fund uses the replication method of indexing, meaning the Fund seeks to own the securities contained in the Benchmark Index in as close as possible a proportion of the Fund as each stock’s weight in the Benchmark Index.

The Fund may also invest in derivatives, including but not limited to forward foreign currency contracts, futures contracts on the Benchmark Index, and options on futures contracts.

Empower Capital Management, LLC (“ECM”) is the Fund’s investment adviser and, subject to the approval of the Board of Directors of Empower Funds (the “Board”), selects the Fund’s sub-adviser and monitors its performance on an ongoing basis. The Fund’s investment portfolio is managed by Irish Life Investment Managers Limited (the “Sub-Adviser” or “ILIM”).

Principal Investment Risks

Below is a summary of the principal investment risks of investing in the Fund. These risks are presented in an order that reflects ECM’s current assessment of relative importance, but this assessment could change over time as the Fund’s portfolio changes or in light of changes in the market or the economic environment, among other things. The Fund is not required to and will not update this Prospectus solely because its assessment of the relative importance of the principal risks of investing in the Fund changes. There can be no assurance that the Fund will achieve its investment objective.

Foreign Securities Risk - Foreign markets can be more volatile than the U.S. market due to increased risks of adverse issuer, political, geopolitical (including war or armed conflict), regulatory, market, currency valuation, or economic or other developments and can perform differently than the U.S. market. Current sanctions or the threat of potential sanctions or other similar measures may also impair the value or liquidity of affected securities and negatively impact the Fund.

Equity Securities Risk - The value of equity securities held by the Fund may decline as a result of factors directly related to a company, a particular industry or industries, or general market conditions that are not specifically related to a company or an industry.

Market Risk - The value of the Fund's investments may decrease, sometimes rapidly or unexpectedly, due to factors affecting specific issuers held by the Fund, particular industries represented in the Fund's portfolio, or the overall securities markets. A variety of factors can increase the volatility of the Fund's holdings and markets generally, including political or regulatory developments, recessions, inflation, rapid interest rate changes, war or acts of terrorism, sanctions, natural disasters, outbreaks of infectious illnesses or other widespread public health issues, or adverse investor sentiment generally. Certain events may cause instability across global markets, including reduced liquidity and disruptions in trading markets, while some events may affect certain geographic regions, countries, sectors, and industries more significantly than others. These adverse developments may cause broad declines in an issuer’s value due to short-term market movements or for significantly longer periods during more prolonged market downturns.

Geographic Concentration Risk - Events negatively affecting the fiscal stability of a particular country or region in which the Fund focuses its investments may cause the value of its shares to decrease, perhaps significantly.

Liquidity Risk - The Fund may not be able to sell a security at or near its perceived value in a timely manner because of unusual market conditions, an unusually high volume of redemption requests, little or no active trading market for a specific type of security, legal or contractual restrictions on resale, or a reduced number or capacity of market participants to make a market in such security. Liquidity risk may also refer to the risk that the Fund will not be able to pay redemption proceeds within the allowable

time period or without significant dilution to the remaining investors’ interest due to market conditions or other factors. Investments in many, but not all, foreign securities tend to have greater exposure to liquidity risk than domestic securities because secondary trading markets for these securities may be smaller and less well-developed and the securities may trade less frequently.

Currency Risk - Adverse fluctuations in exchange rates between the U.S. dollar and other currencies may cause the Fund to lose money on investments denominated in foreign currencies.

Large Size Company Risk - Large size companies are generally more mature and may be unable to respond as quickly as smaller companies to new competitive challenges, such as changes in technology and consumer tastes, and may not be able to attain the high growth rate of successful smaller companies, especially during extended periods of economic expansion.

Medium Size Company Risk - The stocks of medium size companies often trade in lower volumes, may be less liquid, and are subject to greater or more unpredictable price changes than stocks of larger companies. Such companies may also have limited markets, financial resources or product lines, may lack management depth, and may be more vulnerable to adverse business or market developments. Accordingly, stocks of medium size companies tend to be more sensitive to changing economic, market, and industry conditions and tend to be more volatile and less liquid than stocks of larger companies, especially over the short term, and are more likely not to survive or accomplish their goals with the result that the value of their stock could decline significantly. In addition, there may be less publicly available information concerning medium size companies upon which to base an investment decision.

Index Risk - Because the Fund is not actively managed but is designed to track the performance of the Benchmark Index, investors should generally expect the value of the Fund to decline when the performance of the Benchmark Index declines. There is no guarantee that the Fund will achieve a high degree of correlation to the Benchmark Index. Additionally, the Benchmark Index may perform unfavorably and/or underperform the market as a whole. As a result, the Fund may have poor investment results even if it closely tracks the performance of the Benchmark Index because the adverse performance of a particular security normally will not result in eliminating the security from the Fund.

Tracking Error Risk - The Fund may not be able to precisely track the performance of the Benchmark Index. Unlike the Fund, the performance of the Benchmark Index is not impacted by fees and expenses, including trading costs associated with implementing portfolio changes. In addition, the Fund may own less than all the securities of the Benchmark Index, which also may cause a variance between the performance of the Fund and the performance of the Benchmark Index. Tracking error risk may cause the Fund’s performance to be less than expected.

Derivatives Risk - The use of derivatives, including but not limited to forward foreign currency contracts, futures contracts on the Benchmark Index, and options on futures contracts, may expose the Fund to additional risks that it would not be subject to if it invested directly in the securities underlying those derivatives. These risks include imperfect correlations with underlying investments or the Fund’s other portfolio holdings, the risk that a derivative could expose the Fund to the risk of magnified losses resulting from leverage, the risk that a counterparty may be unwilling or unable to meet its obligations, high price volatility, liquidity risk, segregation risk, valuation risk and legal restrictions.

Management Risk - A strategy, investment decision, technique, analysis, or model used by the portfolio managers may fail to produce the intended results or imperfections, errors or limitations in the tools and data used by the portfolio managers may cause unintended results. Therefore, the Fund could underperform in comparison to other funds with similar objectives and investment strategies and may generate losses even in a favorable market.

An investment in the Fund is not a deposit with a bank, is not insured, endorsed or guaranteed by the FDIC or any government agency, and is subject to the possible loss of your original investment.

Performance

The bar chart and table below provide an indication of the risk of investment in the Fund by showing changes in the performance of the Fund’s Investor Class shares for the last ten calendar years and by comparing the Fund's average annual total returns to the performance of the Benchmark Index, which is a broad-based securities market index. The returns shown below are historical and are not an indication of future performance. Total return figures assume reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions and include the effect of the Fund’s recurring expenses, but do not include fees and expenses of any Permitted Account. If the fees and expenses of any Permitted Account were reflected, the performance shown would be lower.

Updated performance information may be obtained at www.empower.com/investments/empower-funds/fund-documents (the website does not form a part of this Prospectus).

Calendar Year Total Returns

	Quarter Ended	Total Return
Best Quarter	December 31, 2022	17.98%
Worst Quarter	March 31, 2020	-23.15%

Average Annual Total Returns for the Periods Ended December 31, 2023

	One Year	Five Years	Ten Years	Since Inception	Inception Date
Institutional Class	17.96%	8.08%	N/A	4.46%	5/1/2015
Investor Class	17.52%	7.66%	3.79%	N/A
MSCI EAFE Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)	18.24%	8.16%	4.28%	4.50%

Investment Adviser

ECM

Sub-Adviser

ILIM

Portfolio Managers

Name	Title	Portfolio Manager of Fund Since
Nicola Dowdall	Head of ETFs & Affiliates	2016
Michael Lynch, CFA	Head of Index Solutions	2016
Peter Leonard, CFA	Head of Indexation Equity	2016

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

The Fund is not sold directly to the general public, but instead may be offered as an underlying investment for Permitted Accounts. Permitted Accounts may place orders on any business day to purchase and redeem shares of the Fund based on instructions received from owners of variable contracts or IRAs, or from participants of retirement plans or college savings programs. Please contact your registered representative, IRA custodian or trustee, retirement plan sponsor or administrator, or college savings program for information concerning the procedures for purchasing and redeeming shares of the Fund.

The Fund does not have any initial or subsequent investment minimums. However, Permitted Accounts may impose investment minimums.

Tax Information

Currently, Permitted Accounts generally are not subject to federal income tax on any Fund distributions. Owners of variable contracts, retirement plan participants, and IRA owners are also generally not subject to federal income tax on Fund distributions until such amounts are withdrawn from the variable contract, retirement plan, or IRA. Distributions from a college savings program generally are not taxed provided that they are used to pay for qualified higher education expenses. More information regarding federal taxation of Permitted Account owners may be found in the applicable prospectus and/or disclosure documents for that Permitted Account.

Payments to Insurers, Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

Companies related to the Fund may make payments to insurance companies, broker-dealers and other financial intermediaries for the sale of Fund shares and/or other services. These payments may be a factor that an insurance company, broker-dealer or other financial intermediary considers when including the Fund as an investment option in a Permitted Account. These payments also may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson, visit your financial intermediary’s website, or consult the variable contract prospectus for more information.