Highlights
Founded in 1887, it is one of the country’s largest and oldest retail brokerage firms.
Included in Training magazine’s “Top 100” corporate education programs for 2006, the sixth consecutive year on the list.
Fortune named A.G. Edwards one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For” in 2006; the 11th time on the list.
The firm recruits recent graduates who have a bachelor’s in finance and MBAs for investment analysis and investment banking positions.
Considered a Main Street, rather than Wall Street, broker, A.G. Edwards plays off its Midwestern roots. A full-service house, it matches every client with one of its nearly 7,000 financial advisors, who offer stocks, bonds, mutual funds, commodities, insurance, and mortgage products in a quota-free environment. The company also invests in private equity partnerships, provides retirement and estate planning services, and underwrites bonds for public projects. Like many other companies in the industry, A.G. Edwards has been keeping a lean staffing roster in recent years. At the end of fiscal year 2006, the firm had nearly 15,500 employees—fewer than during its bull-market days—but about the same as in 2005. Among the A.G. Edwards crew, some 50 senior analysts cover 700 companies in more than 70 industries.