JPMorgan Asset Management's 2015 Guide to Retirement has a handy retirement savings checkpoint guide to help you with that one. To get a crude idea of how much you should have saved, find the age nearest to your age and then go across to the column with the salary nearest to your current salary. Then multiply the number you land on by that salary. For example, this guide suggests that if you're 35 years old and earn $100,000 a year, you should have saved $140,000 by now. Among other things, this assumes you continue to contribute 5% of your salary annually, you retire at age 65, and you die at age 95. (See box for other assumptions.). But if you stick to this plan, you are likely to retire comfortably.
The debt swap has been made possible by a contribution of approximately US$11.2 million from the U.S. government under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act, and approximately US$560,000 by Conservation International, in part through a donation from the Arcus Foundation.
Credit default swap. A credit default swap (CDS) is a financial swap agreement that the seller of the CDS will compensate the buyer (usually the creditor of the reference loan) in the event of a loan default (by the debtor) or other credit event. This is to say that the seller of the CDS insures the buyer against some reference loan defaulting.