Financial Advisor Position - Anonymous employee Edward Jones Employee Review

2.0
Jun 25, 2018
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

If you have prior experience in sales within another field, then you may enjoy working at Edward Jones. The Financial Advisor Role is a sales position. You get to meet interesting people and the people who work for the firm are generally nice.

Cons

The primary cons to working at Edward Jones is that you aren't expected to really know or understanding anything about the how the markets really work. There's no metric that evaluates you based on how well you structured a client's portfolio. In fact, most financial advisors are only concerned with opening accounts(i.e. what you get paid to do) and simply place clients funds either in some mutual fund(i.e. managed by someone else) or only recommend stocks that are on the firm's recommended buy list. If you're really passionate about the markets, trading, portfolio management, etc. this is not the place to work. I personally experienced advisors who had been with the firm a decade not knowing how to value a company, attributing the stock being too expensive due to the price of the stock being above $100.

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