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

1.0
26 Feb 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
2 Apr 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.

2.0
24 Jun 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Accessible stepping stone into the industry. Flexibility

Cons

Little transparency for employees, high pressure annuities and insurance sales with little real education or support on product or sales practice knowledge. Expect long hours while you learn to do recordkeeping and support work on your own while trying to meet goals that make sense for someone with a few years of prior experience, staff to help with paperwork and recordkeeping, and a decent lead funnel. You may not get any of these depending on branch and territory but you will still have a performance goal to keep your base pay and benefits that feels absurd to the new entrants they primarily target for recruitment.

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