Do you remember whether GE matched your contribution? 25% in GE doesn't seem totally unreasonable or dumb especially if they added to your buys. My company was located next door to a small GE office and I knew some brainy people there. I dodged a bullet by somehow never buying their stock.
The period 1984-1989 was when I fell in love with index funds and the wisdom of Vanguard's John Bogle. My own individual stocks, and the several mutual funds I owned, virtually always lagged the S&P 500. Only in the last 10-15 years have I moved back into some individual blue chip stocks because I worried about having too much of my money in index funds.
35 years later I still say, it's very hard to beat index funds.
So if one is the secretary, and you know a shit storm is coming, and one has the right to reallocate funds in a given time period, can you do so, and not get caught for insider trading. Might be able to pull it off.
Well, apparently Grace never sold any of her Abbott shares, so I don't think she'd have been in any trouble.
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