Run!!!!! - Financial Professional Equitable Advisors Employee Review

1.0
Feb 26, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

You can get your Series 7 here which is pretty much the key to getting hired at a legitimate financial advisory services firm. But......you have to pay for it yourself.

Cons

-First 6 months without a base salary only on commission (which you wont get much of because you just started). Don't expect to make anything for 6 months. -You are expected to sell the 403(b) which requires you to sit in teachers lounges all day at public schools in the middle of nowhere and badger every teacher who comes in to buy a product that you know won't make them any money. -I wouldn't do this job if it was the last opportunity on earth. The first six months are the equivalent to a cutco knife sales internship. -Commission structure is terrible -Impossible to maintain fiduciary responsibility and be successful at the same time.

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5.0
Apr 2, 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation structure, product availability, brokerage system, overall tools, open structure to do best for your clients

Cons

Support staff are more hands off, not a lot of in house support staff members.

1.0
Jun 8, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Good place for career changers to get financial licenses (they will license anybody)

Cons

Very bad pay model for new hires- will tell you 6% commissions on certain products but then you have to kick up 10% to your manager and the other half of what's left to whoever is working w you because they make you go out in pairs...and mostly seem want to get ahold of all your friends and family for sales you can't participate on without the 66....but you have no time to study that bc you are too busy selling for the products that don't require it to make quota, as your clock starts when you pass the 7, so pretty much they just want your people. It's very eat what you kill, and then only after it's been picked over.... which is fine if you're young with no obligations, but not great if you have a family. If you were an existing advisor and had your own book/contacts it could work. Otherwise get your licenses, learn a little, but don't be afraid to move on to other opportunities.

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