Great Growth Opportunity but difficult to make it if you're straight out of college - Financial Consultant Equitable Advisors Employee Review

4.0
14 Feb 2012
Recommend
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Pros

+flexibility, respect, opportunity for growth both personally and professionally + if you have a passion for helping people and building relationships then you'll enjoy this job. + friendly upper management, I had terrific manager to turn to if i had any questsions or concerns or needed help running meetings, some of them will make the extra effort to see you succeed + great team atmosphere and co-workers +great job for visonary entrepreneurs +great benefits

Cons

- compensation can be better considering the hard work you put in - if you're straight out of college, it will be hard to make it, trying to build your book of business, being so young, some prospective clients might be hesitant to trust you with their money. - Outdated computers! - plenty of fees to just get started - no TVs, CNBC or Bloomberg going on in the Edison office

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5.0
2 Apr 2026
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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
26 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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