If you are a true 50Up and haven’t started seriously financial planning for your retirement, it may be too late. To use the cliché, 40 is the new 60, which means you need to start strategizing for retirement savings sooner, not later. Some retirement planners surveyed 3000 people and, on average, found they were aged 61 before they were preparing for life after work. By then, it’s not ... read more>

Hi Members! Each week we will bring you one event per state and where possible, we will try and secure tickets to the events. Thanks to Weekend Notes for the What’s On info, Ace Cinema’s and eOne Films This week we have freebies in Western Australia and South Australia! To enter, email me at kayley@fiftyupclub.com.au and tell me in 25 words or less why you joined the FiftyUp Club using the s... read more>

The FiftyUp Club is a child of two fundamental changes sweeping through our society—the digital revolution which make such groups possible and the dramatic demographic ageing of the population. It’s sometimes argued older Australians are less able to take advantage of all the benefits the digital world can bring (lower cost and convenience) and more vulnerable to its disadvantages (scams and... read more>

Australia’s biggest consumer club for the over-50s is today launching a campaign to source exclusive insurance offers for the industry’s best customers - mature Australians. The MA50+ campaign aims to use the combined buying power of 20,000 consumers aged over 50 to negotiate discounted home & contents and car insurance offers. Independent actuarial analysis by Finity Cons... read more>

Given this is the season of good cheer and no one needs any more lectures about what we are doing wrong, how about some new research on what some are doing right? There are few more important, or irritating, guidelines about how much, or little, we should eat and drink and exercise to enjoy more healthy ageing. Often the news reports focus on who is doing what and with good reason bec... read more>