If you are a typical investor (or financial advisor for that matter), it is possible that the S&P 500 index could do a great deal of damage to your retirement plans. To be clear, the problem with the S&P 500 index is not that it has performed poorly or that I’m predicting that it will perform poorly in the future. The problem is that way too many investors and financial advisors give the S&P 500 stock index way too much power over their financial lives.

Your home is often the most valuable thing you own; not only for sentimental reasons, but just for the sheer dollar amount. I am guessing that while the vast majority of you have homeowners insurance, people often do not know or understand the coverage they have. In some cases, this can be costly if a claim is made later. Here are a few things to review in your homeowners’ policy that are common points of confusion.

As more and more people are being vaccinated, hope has risen the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions will be a thing of the past by the end of 2021. Once it does subside, we will all be in a world that looks different than it did in February 2020. As your lives adjust to post-COVID normal, it’s a good idea to make some reassessments of your life, including your finances. Here are three aspects of your financial life to reassess “post-COVID”.