Great company, great products, but expensive to work for. - Financial Advisor Equitable Advisors Employee Review

4.0
Dec 9, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

You're in control of your business. Your success is dependent on your drive and work ethic. If you show significant and consistant growth, career advancement is in your future. AXA also offers very competitive products.

Cons

There are a lot of costs associated with being an advisor. Your compensation gets cut by all the expenses you are required to pay (Rent for office, licenses, computer, phone, administrative support, E&O insurance, etc.). In doing a comparison with other financial advising organizations, AXA Advisors seems to be one of the more expensive companies to work for.

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5.0
Apr 2, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

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
Jun 26, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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