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Edward Jones is a full‑service wealth management firm that serves more than four million individual and institutional clients, including non‑high‑net‑worth and high‑net‑worth households, pension/profit‑sharing plans, corporate clients and charitable organizations. The firm operates an SEC‑registered advisory program (the Edward Jones Investment Advisory Program) and reported approximately $1.01 trillion in AUM, supported by a nationwide network of roughly 23,701 financial advisors and 15,121 branch offices.

The firm offers both discretionary and non‑discretionary wrap fee strategies (Managed Solutions, Custom Managed Solutions, FA Managed and Client Directed), access to separately managed accounts (SMAs), and affiliated mutual funds and a proprietary money market fund managed by an affiliate. Edward Jones provides overlay and tax‑efficient services (including a tax‑loss harvesting offering), pilots a Multi‑Year Transition Service and an Alternative Investments pilot for Custom Managed Solutions, and operates under a fiduciary standard when providing its advisory services.

Compared with many peers in the institutional category, Edward Jones is notable for its very large retail advisor and branch footprint and for maintaining affiliated capabilities beyond advisory services — including a trust company, affiliated mutual funds available primarily in its advisory programs, and a securities‑based lending option. The firm also recently updated its practices to vote client proxies for all strategies and highlights several program‑specific features and limitations (for example, eligibility rules for certain affiliated funds, SMA implementations and pilots) that clients should review in the firm’s regulatory brochure.