Fulfilling & Flexible Career Choice - Financial Consultant Equitable Advisors Employee Review

4.0
May 3, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

There are so many different ways you can take your career, and this company gives you all of the tools to back you up regardless of which way you end up going! You can be a solo act, or join a large producer group. Make your own schedule, work as many or few hours as you like and there is no salary cap. It’s nice to work in an industry where you get out of it what you put into it! No one to blame but yourself, no politics. I absolutely love how I can still participate in my kids school activities while making enough money to support our family.

Cons

It takes time to build your business. It will be difficult at first. You’ll have to put in a lot more time and effort the first few years, not only to become good at what you’re doing but to build your client base. It is well worth the time and effort, but don’t expect to come into this industry and be completely successful from day one!

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5.0
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Pros

Freedom and flexibility to build your own practice and book of business.

Cons

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1.0
Jun 26, 2026
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Pros

Complete freedom to build your book of business anmd schedule.

Cons

Horrendous place to start. Managers run their own practice and have little to no time to actually help you outside of your joint meetings so you're on your own. They only give you 2 options to get clients, cold calling or their retirement benefits group through schools. Basically the whole advising piece is to just to sell life insurance and annuities. The support staff is thin so you're kind of on your own with paperwork and compliance docs. They just genuinely offer you nothing. No help with covering costs (you pay for all your licensing and marketing materials), they even charge you for using the company laptop and fees for programs you will never use. They will mislead you about the commission payouts and you only really get something if you get them to buy an annuity or life insurance. If you also have a remaining balance of any fees when you leave, they will literally sending you threatening letters demanding the money and threaten you with claims court if you don't pay it back.

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