RPT-COLUMN-Beyond GE: U.S. workers own too much company stock in retirement plans

The decision marked the end of an era: last month, the keepers of the Dow Jones Industrial Average removed General Electric Co , one of the original stocks included in the index when it was created in 1896. The once-mighty GE had become the sixth-smallest member of the 30-component Dow by market value and carried the index’s lowest stock price. The move by S&P D