BUYER BEWARE! I am writing this to warn teachers of predatory financial advisors who are not fiduciaries (I don think any are!), who come to educational institutions to offer their services to teachers and others. I have been working with an advisor for over ten years, and I trusted him 100% with my hard-earned money. Logically, I thought that he knew better than me, since he is trained in his field and supposed to be the financial expert. This year, working from home, I had more time to explore independent investing on my own. I have more than doubled a little fun money using Robinhood. I started reading about the basics of investing and learning tons. I came across an article stating how teachers and nurses often entrust financial advisors, to their detriment. This is exactly what happened to me. When I started investigating, I discovered that my advisor had sold me a product with a very high expense ratio, so that he would benefit the most from the product, not me. I showed my portfolio to a friend who knows about investing, and after I found out how poorly my money was being managed, I ended up going into my own account, selling all the fixed income products that had been selected (selections with nice kickback fees to the advisor and sales fee for the company that I was signed up for) and on my own I quickly changed them to Vanguard 500 Index instead. I went from having half my portfolio in fixed assets to having 78% in the Vanguard Index, and now I see I will most likely have to work longer before retirement, to make up for my losses that could have been avoided. Based on my experience, I cannot recommend Cetera Advisor Networks. I feel deep betrayal by my financial advisor and encourage everyone to learn the basics of investing (it is not hard!) and take control over their financial future. DO NOT BLINDLY TRUST ANY ADVISOR. Those fees are often hidden and difficult to find. The minute I turn 59.5 I am going to roll over everything into a Vanguard account or similar. Yes, live and learn! read more