The investing world has moved on. Edward Jones hasn't. - Financial Advisor Edward Jones Employee Review

2.0
19 Jun 2009
Recommend
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Pros

As a financial Advisor, the other FAs in your region really do care about your success. The payouts are quite competitive, and the company is very stable (as opposed to all the publicly-traded companies in the field that are liable to be bought out by a competitor at any moment).

Cons

It's hard to feel good about selling mediocre investments. It's no coincidence that low-cost index funds are taking a larger and larger portion of mutual fund assets. In short, your chances of beating a low-cost index fund with an active fund are *very* slim. Unfortunately, Edward Jones senior management has managed to ignore this fact for over three decades now. If you work at Ed Jones, selling active funds with sales loads is your only option. (Aside from selling individual stocks and bonds, which is even more irresponsible.) Essentially, working as a FA at Jones makes you a salesperson selling a mediocre array of investment products. If you want to provide a high level of service to your clients, you'll have to go elsewhere.

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5.0
23 Jun 2026
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Pros

Incentives, absolutely better than anything

Cons

Nothing other than corporate politics

2.0
24 Jun 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

They have allowed the HBA’s (home based associates) to remain remote

Cons

Micromanagers, they say they are okay if you want to apply to another department within the firm but the minute you do it’s like you get a target on your back. The pay doesn’t match the workload and the word is that you have to quit and then come back to make what you should already be getting paid. Benefits are terrible but 401k is pretty good

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