If you’re a Telstra employee or a hospitality worker, you might be lucky enough to be in one of the top-performing Super funds of the year 2013/14. As this story in the Fairfax press explains, “Another good year for super funds has helped push account balances to almost double what they were 10 years ago.” The median balanced option returned […]

Discrimination against older workers is decreasing, according to new research by the Financial Services Council. Just 18% of employees aged 50-75 said they were ­discriminated against on the basis of their age, compared to 28% surveyed two years ago. Age Discrimination Commissioner Susan Ryan and others have argued that discrimination keeps many older people out of the workforce who would […]

Dear Fellow Members, As we are all aware, gloomy Federal Budget speculation has been rife lately, so I’ve decided my message this week should be on a cheerier note. Since having come on board as your Chairman I’ve noticed a handful of particular issues dominate your messages and forum posts. Switching is one of those at the top of the […]

With all the tough talk about raising the retirement age, increasing the age where you can access your super, adjusting the pension assets test and paying to see a GP, it’s hard not to see this Federal Budget as being targeted at the over-50s. Here at FiftyUp Club HQ, we’ve taken to calling it the “FiftyUp Federal Budget”, and we […]

Dear Fellow Members, Well, I asked you to speak up and sign our petition on the higher costs we get slugged on health insurance … and boy, did you listen. We smashed our target of 10,000 within the first 48 hours, which meant we had to reset our target to 15,000. At the moment we are sitting on around 12,500, […]