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Annuities selling at record level as clients look for growth and buffers

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Total sales are up 28% in the first half, with RILAs and fixed annuities rising, according to Limra.

Annuity sales have rocketed to record levels this year, fueled by demand for products that give contract owners stock exposure but provide limits that keep them from getting burned too severely by market drops.

Those products, registered index-linked annuities, have gone from being a blip on inde

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