Equitable Advisors reviews

3.7

65% would recommend to a friend

(2,516 total reviews)
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Mark Pearson

80% approve of CEO

65% positive business outlook

Equitable Advisors has an employee rating of 3.7 out of 5 stars, based on 2,516 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Equitable Advisors employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Financial Services industry (3.7 stars).

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1.0
Apr 1, 2010
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Pros

If you like Axa Equitable as a company, than Axa is the place for you. If you want to be a more well rounded advisor and think outside the box, it is not.

Cons

Working at Axa Advisors is best described as working as a sales rep for Axa Equitable. The advisors have the ability to sell a multitude of financial products, but every incentive in the world to sell only Axa Equitable products, which are obviously not the most appropriate in every circumstance.

1.0
Feb 17, 2010
Recommend
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Pros

flexible schedule, ability to choose your joint work partner and decide commission splits amongst yourselves

Cons

Everyone lies to you, about everything. Start-up costs are never completely disclosed, same goes for on-going expenses (about $450 per month, not including health insurance costs and any marketing you want to do). IF you actually make any money, the commission statements are impossible to read, and costs are deducted -often ending in NEGATIVE commissions that go into "recovery" that they will send lawyers after you to regain. There are SO MANY negatives here, it's rediculous. Unless you have a pre-established book of business you KNOW you can work, DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME HERE!

2.0
Aug 13, 2009
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation is decent. They give a sizeable bonus on top of all production your first year, then scaled it down the second year, and the third. Fourth year becomes increasingly difficult to run a practice if you have not built a strong foundation of investment assets.

Cons

Management pushes Life Insurance and Annuities because it is the best up-front commissionable dollars for them. They suck you dry for your family, friends and energy then management leaves you be to wither away. Your incentive to bring in investible assets is minimal, as they do not train you for this, nor do they have knowledgeable investment head honcho's to assist you. After two-years with the company, I did not have a leg to stand on as I was attempting to continuously new clients. Most of the people I entered AXA with have left due to poor management, or just realizing that this is not the way to run a business. I also received a letter in the mail from a law office, six months after leaving AXA. They state that I owe a significant amount of Pre-Paid Commissions paid by AXA to me, without them receiving payment from the policies that I was paid on. Now let's get this straight. I leave a company, six-months later they send a letter, not from their headquarters, but directly from a law-firm in New York. Sounds a little weird to me. I pulled in quite a bit of assets for them, and if you are to leave the firm and commissions have not paid out to you for a policy in under-writing, they keep the commissions, they don't send them to you. So why in the world, after I sold their products and made sure clients paid their premiums would they come after me now? A comapny with $2trillion of assets should realize that they sucked me and my family dry enough.

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