Not a good fee based advisory business, cant meet production goals unless you sell high upfront commissions only - Financial Advisor Edward Jones Employee Review

3.0
Apr 30, 2012
Recommend
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Pros

no start up costs, will train you every inch of the way on how to sell, your on your own to learn how to make your clients money. Good way to get foot in door for college grads and people with no capital to start thier own business

Cons

40% payout accross the board basically, your on your own but still not feel as though you are in control. They offer a fee base or commission base, your choice, but if your looking to be a fee based broker, ed jones profitability and requirements do not meet standards for using fee base products, meaning you wont be meeting standard commission guidelines if you try to build fee base business, you will most def go broke and lose your job trying to do whats right for the client

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Cons

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Pros

They have allowed the HBA’s (home based associates) to remain remote

Cons

Micromanagers, they say they are okay if you want to apply to another department within the firm but the minute you do it’s like you get a target on your back. The pay doesn’t match the workload and the word is that you have to quit and then come back to make what you should already be getting paid. Benefits are terrible but 401k is pretty good

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