{"id":21956,"date":"2024-06-05T14:05:38","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T14:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkadvisor.com\/2024\/06\/05\/rilas-are-not-the-only-annuities-with-sizzle\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T14:05:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T14:05:38","slug":"rilas-are-not-the-only-annuities-with-sizzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2024\/06\/05\/rilas-are-not-the-only-annuities-with-sizzle\/","title":{"rendered":"RILAs Are Not the Only Annuities With Sizzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/-\/898957895\/0\/thinkadvisor\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2023\/04\/2021-10-28-up-arrow-277624176_AdobeStock_640x640_tadamichi.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.thinkadvisor.com\/contrib\/content\/uploads\/sites\/415\/2023\/04\/2021-10-28-up-arrow-277624176_AdobeStock_640x640_tadamichi.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p id=\"first-para\">Registered index-linked annuity sales are climbing \u2014 and so are sales of the RILA\u2019s older siblings, non-variable indexed annuities.<\/p>\n<p>Sales of non-variable indexed annuities climbed 29% between the first quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2024, to $29 billion, according to new issuer survey data from Wink.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cContinued attractive rates benefited the product line,\u201d Wink says in a comment on the data. \u201cIt is projected that indexed annuity records will set records again in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>What it means:<\/strong> Relatively high interest, the aging of the baby boomers and lingering investor concerns about market volatility continue to push individual annuity sales higher.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Non-variable products vs. variable products:<\/strong> Sales of all types of U.S. individual annuities that Wink has been tracking for at least a year increased 18%, to $100 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Registered index-linked annuity sales are climbing \u2014 and so are sales of the RILA\u2019s older siblings, non-variable indexed annuities. Sales of non-variable indexed annuities climbed 29% between the first quarter of 2023 and the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/rilas-are-not-the-only-annuities-with-sizzle.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}