Sinking Ship - Retirement Advisor Empower Employee Review

1.0
18 Dec 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The biggest pro is working with participants who need it

Cons

Surely the influx of recent reviews have to be coaxed, because this place is a sinking ship. Empower is always finding ways to make a buck from participants, even when subject to class action lawsuits and now loads of bad press. Not only that, they also just realized that they did not properly sponsor our series 7, meaning our licenses lapsed on their watch. Frankly this is the type of company that will end up on a commercial in 15-20 years prompting class action settlements. Despite how they will lie, please note this job is entirely sales based and all they care about is getting people in poor performing managed accounts. Unfortunately now a lot of us are trapped after having expired licensing.

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Cons

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Cons

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