Brenda Scott Royce: Chimp Change: The Fate of Retired Apes
May 1, 2008 - Think your pension is in peril? It could be worse. You could be a chimpanzee.
Prompted by yet another dire report about the numbers of Americans facing poverty in retirement, I visited an online financial site to determine whether I'm fated to join their ranks. After plugging my salary, savings, and IRA balance into the retirement calculator, I learned that--barring unforeseen events--if my…