Retirement Shock: Need to Find a Job After 40 Years at General Electric
This looks like a failure with portfolio construction to me. Keeping a lot of your net worth in the stock of one company is not a very good strategy for diversification. This is especially true when it is the stock of the company that you are working for, because if the company gets into trouble, you might not just lose your job, but also your savings.<p>One easy improvement your this particular case would have been to roll some of the money from GE stocks into bonds and do a classic 60:40 split. If he really wanted to stick with that company, he could have even bought GE bonds since their default risk is reasonably low.