Dallas - Amazing Culture - Financial Representative Equitable Advisors Employee Review

5.0
10 May 2018
Recommend
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Pros

I work out of Dallas and what an amazing group of individuals. The support staff is great and training is world class. On the Retirement Benefits Group there IS a base salary plus commissions and bonus compensation. This is a great career for someone who has that entrepreneurial spirit but doesn’t want to build a financial services practice alone. The people truly care and want you to do well.

Cons

It’s a challenge; But anything worth doing is...the first 1-3 years are a grind and by year 5 it’s completely worth it. If you truly want to get into Financial Services this is a great company to start with and grow your practice.

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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.

1.0
26 June 2026
Recommend
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Business outlook

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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