Goldman Sachs and T. Rowe Price announced a strategic collaboration aimed at delivering a range of diversified public and private market solutions designed for the unique needs of retirement and wealth investors.

This collaboration will leverage the strengths of both firms, including respective investment expertise, solutions orientations, and a deep understanding of the needs of intermediaries and their clients. A central focus is on providing a range of wealth and retirement offerings that incorporate access to private markets for individuals, financial advisors, plan sponsors, and plan participants.

The firms are pleased to announce that Goldman Sachs intends to invest, through a series of open-market purchases, up to $1 billion in T. Rowe Price common stock with the intention to own up to 3.5 percent.

“This investment and collaboration represent our conviction in a shared legacy of success delivering results for investors,” said David Solomon, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs. “With Goldman Sachs’ decades of leadership innovating across public and private markets and T. Rowe Price’s expertise in active investing, clients can invest confidently in the new opportunities for retirement savings and wealth creation.”

Rob Sharps, Chair, Chief Executive Officer and President of T. Rowe Price, said, “As a leader in retirement, we have a proven track record of using our expertise to drive solutions that help our clients confidently prepare for, save for, and live in retirement. We are excited to collaborate with Goldman Sachs—building on our broad capabilities across public and private markets to offer clients the ability to unlock the potential of private capital as part of their retirement and wealth management strategies.”

“This strategic collaboration greatly enhances T. Rowe Price’s and OHA’s ability to deliver a wider range of investment strategies, focusing on accelerating innovation and creating new products to serve client needs. We welcome T. Rowe Price’s and Goldman Sachs’ commitment to deepen private market alternatives access to wealth and retirement clients. We view this collaboration as an important milestone in OHA’s growth with T. Rowe Price,” said Glenn August, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of OHA.

Key Highlights

• Target-Date Strategies: The firms will offer new, co-branded target-date strategies that leverage T. Rowe Price’s expertise in the retirement blend series while broadening plan participants’ access to private markets by incorporating investment capabilities from Goldman Sachs, T. Rowe Price and OHA. Goldman Sachs will serve as third-party provider of private market strategies for the target-date series. The firms intend to launch the solutions in mid-2026.
• Model Portfolios: The firms will introduce a series of jointly created, co-branded model portfolios leveraging the strengths of both organizations, incorporating SMAs, direct indexing, ETFs, mutual funds and private market vehicles tailored to the needs of advisors serving mass-affluent and high-net-worth (HNW) clients.
• Multi-Asset Offerings: T. Rowe Price and Goldman Sachs will also collaborate on multi-asset offerings. The firms are currently considering two strategies—one that will provide access to asset classes such as private equity, private credit and private infrastructure in a diversified portfolio delivered through one vehicle, and another that integrates US public and private equity investing into a single offering.
• Personalized Advice Solutions and Advisor Managed Accounts: The firms are collaborating to deliver an innovative, scalable advisory platform for advisors and other RIAs to offer managed retirement accounts at scale in-plan and out-of-plan. This includes integrating retirement planning and advice from the firms into the T. Rowe Price recordkeeping and Individual Investor platforms.

Source: T. Rowe Price