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To: Hydroshock
Truly sorry for your friend and so many others - however those ENRON employees that maintained a more diversified 401K (i.e. other than investing all or most of their retirment funds into Enron stock )did not suffer meltdown There is a lesson to be learned here for others
60 posted on 10/23/2006 1:51:54 PM PDT by VRWCTexan (History has a long memory - but still repeats itself)
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To: VRWCTexan
Right. Most good financial advisors will tell you that you should never have more than 4%-5% of your retirement nest egg invested in any one company. Sometimes, an exception can be made (up to maybe 10%) for a company like General Electric -- which is involved in so many different lines of business that it almost functions like a mutual fund instead of a single company.
65 posted on 10/23/2006 1:58:58 PM PDT by Alberta's Child (Can money pay for all the days I lived awake but half asleep?)
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