Do Your Research!! - Recensione dipendente - Financial Consultant presso Equitable Advisors

1,0
7 gen 2022
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

- Flexible hours - Get licensed (but Equitable won't pay for them until a year after you get them)

Svantaggi

- It is literally the exact business model of a pyramid scheme. Seniors "hire" juniors who just cold call everyday and get meetings booked for the seniors. Juniors get paid little to nothing and usually quit after 1 year. The seniors don't have to pay them anything after they quit so there is a benefit to seeing juniors fail. - Through your first year you will make about $10,000. Second year about $25,000. And that is considered being on track. Absolutely no way to sustain living in NYC on that pay. - Your start is very closely tied to your manager. DO YOUR RESEARCH on them. If they are bad at closing business you will make NO money. Mine was terrible and blew multiple sales - For your first 2-3 years you will do the same thing every single day: Cold call people who want nothing to do with Equitable because they either don't know what it is or know that bad reputation it has. - Very slimy in the sense that you basically have to lie/con these random people into taking meeting with you - Culture is terrible. All the junior consultants absolutely hate being there because they are basically working for free. My first month there I heard someone say "would you rather work here or be unemployed", another answered "unemployed because I'd be making more money" and that is true!

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Risposta di Equitable Advisors
4y
We appreciate the comment. Actually -- we have a tremendous culture of people helping their colleagues and teamwork, and a tremendous commitment to DEI. Our Gold Mentor program (plus other initiatives we have for new Financial Professionals) ensure mentorship and joint work opportunities. Your numbers, however, are not accurate with our actual averages!

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5,0
24 nov 2025
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

The education, resources, and support provided provided by leadership at the branch level (regional: OH and IN) and district level (local: Carmel Office) are excellent. If you want the best shot at succeeding in this career you'll be hard-pressed to find a better firm and a better team to do it with.

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The statistics tell a story: As many as 9 in 10 people who become financial advisors are have left the career within their first three years. Its a challenging career path, period. But there are companies with better than average development and retention rates and Equitable is one of them for good reason.

1,0
26 giu 2026
Consiglia
Gradimento del CEO
Pronostico commerciale

Vantaggi

Complete freedom to build your book of business anmd schedule.

Svantaggi

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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