Great job for determined individuals with an entrepreneurial mindset - Financial Professional Equitable Advisors Employee Review

4.0
Mar 15, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

You get out what you put in, so compensation is a direct result of your commitment and work ethic so for the hardworking and driven, this is a fantastic role. Great support staff and management to guide you through the early years of your career and set up for the future. Wide range of 1 on 1 mentoring available from experts in all areas of the industry. Amazing company culture around the office(and more recently zoom calls and such).

Cons

Pretty slow start. This job has a bit of a startup cost and a learning curve. The first year or two is a lot of hard work that goes under paid for the most part but it all builds up that base as your time goes on. A lot of personal expenses. Licenses and such grow quite a bill year over year as well as other nickel and dime type expenses (office space, tech package, travel costs, etc). Odd hours sometimes based around the availability of clients/prospects

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Pros

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Cons

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1.0
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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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