Edward Jones

Great pep talk, nothing really fiduciary letter from advisor, poor performance for a year period, and having my own brokerage account with the same amount to check performance, stayed in green, meantime Edward Jones lost money, their fees structure helped, no doubt as well. Stay away!!!

I've been dealing with Edward Jones for about 10 years and so zero growth! Only losses and bad advice. I recently sold my house and gave them my life savings. They forced me into the bond market assuring me it's the safest market. 8 months later I lost 20 percent of my life savings, all I got was assurance that it will rebound. I have no faith in these people. I will be transferring my other account next week. There are so many other options out there, do your research and stay away from this Ponzi scam.

Edward Jones advisors are as bad as advisors as I have had. They are phony pretending to be your friend and developing a relationship and all the while taking your money from savings only to be lost since all they want is to pad their pocket. Using this line " You don't make money having your money in a savings account, put money into mutual funds and you'll make more money with their stupid percentages they throw out to you. Beware of this line of crap and use your own common sense and don't fall for their lines all they are salesman. The worst kind of salesmen taking your money. Remember no one cares more about your money than yourself. I am very very sorry I got involved with Edward Jones and hopefully I'll make money back from mutual funds that are losers now and then I am totally out of Edward Jones. I am a millionaire and I didn't get my wealth by being stupid. Don't get involved with Edward Jones.

Ian has been handling our financial planning for over 15 years and has been a great asset to our family in advising us on everything we needed to plan for our children's college savings, planning our for our short term financial needs as well as the long term. He has given us excellent advise over the years and we have seen great gains when the economy boomed and he also sheltered our investments very well when the economy suffered. I cannot express our gratitude to Ian for all that he has done for our family over the year. He is an excellent advisor and gives great advise for whatever your short or long term goals. He is personable, down to earth and explains the markets in a way that is easy to understand. You will be very happy with the services from him as well as his excellent staff.

Fees, fees, fees. Never seen so many. Advisor kept claiming my gains made them worth it and took credit for those gains. No, the gains came solely from my stock choices. I was forced into mediocre American funds because they pay E. Jones to put their clients into them. I never knew this until doing my homework. Every time I asked about other funds I was told I would have to pay MORE!!! Over time it became clear that the financial advisor's advice to me was determined by how much $$$ she could make off of those choices and not what was best for me. A very sad state of affairs. I should have moved over to Schwab years ago. Now that the transfer is going through this advisor can't be bothered to give me the time of day. Schwab is SO much better. They have advisors there 24/7 and they are not commission driven. Wish I'd moved years ago.

I had my money with Edward Jones for 10 years and saw absolutely no growth. I did some research and found out that they get paid by companies to put client’s investments in their mutual funds and stocks. They also take money from the clients. This is so obviously a conflict of interest and they actually had to pay a 75 million dollar fine because of this. This is why they do not have your best interest at heart. Only theirs and the companies. I demanded that they put my money in a certain stock they and outright refused to, so I pulled all my money out. They get paid by commission only and are nothing but glorified salesman and are not required to have any financial background. Beware of investing with Edward jones because they are not required to give the best financial advise for you, only for them and the company. Everyone wise up and pull your money from them as soon as you can because it is a Ponzi scheme. Do your due diligence and research this, don’t just take my word for it like they expect you to do.

A few days ago I met with a financial advisor with this company, who had an office in Murfreesboro, TN. I was impressed with the meeting and I made plans to move a substantial amount of stock to the company. When I arrived home I had an email trying to get me to sign up for online services. I did what most people don't do: I read the "agreement" that became binding if I used the online service. Down about paragraph 18 there was an indemnity agreement whereby the client agreed to indemnify Edward Jones, its provider, and all of its third parties. I did not use the online service and I notified the advisor that I would not use it because of the indemnity agreement. Later the advisor sent me an email stating that Edward Jones could not help me. Beware of this company!!

Edwards Jones is a big company who stole our money by freezing our account. Corporate office will not talk to us. When we called in to corporate, they just ask if we are speaking with our rep. We don't want to speak to our rep because he doesn't have the answers. To this day we have not received one letter on why our account is frozen. They continue to charge us fees on the frozen account. They basically stole our money. Now we have to hire expensive attorneys to try and get our money back. I am warning everyone not to do business with this company. All is great until it's not. Good luck!

She has been with us for many years. Our portfolio has increased well and we are able to use some of that to pay property tax. She make all the adjustments and they have been on target. Well done. We even moved to another state and kept her service.

Our advisor got us to retirement and now is helping us enjoy our retirement. He is also making sure our grandsons will have money for college or to start a business. We did not, nor do we now have a lot of money, but it did not matter to him the amount of the initial investment. I cannot say that about all the advisors we have had.