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Fixed Indexed and Registered Index-Linked Annuities Post Record Sales in Third Quarter 2024

In the first nine months of 2024, total annuity sales increased 23% to $332 billion.

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Powering Forward: In-Plan Annuities Gain Momentum

In-plan annuities are seeing an uptick in adoption as a growing number of workers have limited access to traditional defined benefit (DB) pensions.

U.S. Individual Annuity Market Forecast

What are the expectations for annuity sales over the next few years?

U.S. Individual Annuity Yearbook

How did sales of individual annuities fare in 2023? Read the most comprehensive overview and gain insights to the key factors impacting the individual annuity market.

Latest Annuity Research

Emerging Affluent Investors

Feb 21, 2025

Find out what motivates younger investors as they balance competing needs while building their early wealth.

2024 Retirement Investors: Behaviors, Attitudes, and Financial Situations

Jan 22, 2025

LIMRA’s Retirement Investors Survey tracks the perceptions, attitudes, behaviors, and financial condition of retirees and non-retired workers in the United States.

The Modern Retiree: Embracing the Future of Retirement

Jan 8, 2025

As the concept of retirement is evolving, what factors are shaping the experiences of modern retirees?

The Facts of Life and Annuities: 2024 Update

Dec 18, 2024

This compilation of key facts from LIMRA and other sources can be used to educate people about the value of life insurance and annuities.

AI and Annuities: In Brief

Nov 22, 2024

How are insurers using generative artificial intelligence to improve the effectiveness of their annuity marketing and distribution?

A Deeper Dive: 2022 Income Annuity Sales and Assets

Sep 17, 2024

To better understand the income annuity market, LIMRA surveyed its member companies that are active in this market.

Annuity Benchmark Studies

U.S. Individual Annuity Market

Feb 19, 2025

Access your one-stop shop for U.S. annuity sales data — benchmark sales and analysis for a range of annuity products, reported by distribution channels and market types. New Q3 2024 RILA data.

U.S. Individual Annuity Yearbook

Aug 7, 2024

How did sales of individual annuities fare in 2023? Read the most comprehensive overview and gain insights to the key factors impacting the individual annuity market.

Canadian Individual Annuities

Feb 12, 2025

Benchmark sales for a range of fixed and segregated fund contracts; by distribution system and province. New Q2 2024 data.

Group Annuity Risk Transfer

Jan 17, 2024

Understand the trends from the quarterly sales, asset, and contract data in the group annuity risk transfer market.

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U.S. Individual Annuity Market Forecast 2025-2027

2/13/2025, 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.

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LinkedIn LIVE: Industry Insights With Bryan Hodgens — What's Ahead for Retail Life and Annuity Sales in 2025?

1/7/2025 - This month, Bryan Hodgens, senior vice president and head of LIMRA research, and John Carroll, senior vice president and head of Life & Annuities, discuss the factors LIMRA expects to have the greatest impact in 2025 and share LIMRA’s forecast on how the life insurance and annuity markets will perform.

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1/7/2025, 2 - 2:30 p.m. ET

Join Bryan Hodgens, senior vice president and head of LIMRA research, and John Carroll, senior vice president and head of Life & Annuities, as they discuss the factors LIMRA expects to have the greatest impact in 2025 and share LIMRA’s forecast on how the life insurance and annuity markets will perform.