Insights

Conning Key Facts

11/03/2026

“Key Facts” offers an overview of Conning’s assets under management, the experience and depth of our investment staff, and our array of capabilities to help you get a quick understanding of our company.


Convertible Performance Across Market Environments: Implications for Insurance Portfolios

10/29/2026

Explore how investment-grade convertibles have historically performed during equity declines, rising-rate periods, and periods when stock and bonds declined together. Conning’s latest Viewpoint examines how the characteristics of convertibles may support diversification, capital efficiency, and portfolio resilience for insurers.


How Could the 2026 Elections Shape the Insurance Industry?

10/26/2026

Explore how the 2026 federal and state elections could affect insurance regulation, underwriting, market capacity, and investment strategy in Conning's analysis.


Diversified Market Insights

10/20/2026

Conning's Diversified Market Insights brings together market commentary from investment professionals across Conning's insurance-focused platform. Each edition explores developments across a range of specialized investment strategies to help insurers and institutional investors navigate evolving market conditions and evaluate potential opportunities.


Is Your Investment Strategy Working as Hard as Your Insurance Business?

10/15/2026

Conning explores how insurers can align investment decisions with their business needs and outlines five key questions for management teams and investment committees to consider.


Beyond the Text Podcast

10/13/2026

Beyond the Text is a Conning podcast that features insights from its Insurance Research Department. Conning’s analysts have deep industry knowledge and come from various backgrounds providing a greater level of context on industry trends for insurance professionals.


The Next Phase of Life Insurance Investing: Balancing Opportunity, Complexity and Capital

09/22/2026

This Viewpoint explores asset allocation shifts, the growing role of structured securities, differences in CLO utilization, and the importance of balancing returns with liquidity, capital efficiency, ALM and enterprise objectives.


Where Outcomes Diverge: Selectivity and Underwriting in Non-Sponsored Direct Lending

07/30/2026

Conning explores the growing importance of manager selection, underwriting rigor, and portfolio structure in private credit investing. Focusing on non-sponsored direct lending, this Viewpoint highlights how asset coverage, governance provisions, and disciplined credit analysis may help insurers balance income generation with capital preservation in an increasingly competitive market.


The Next Differentiator: Investment Strategy in the Evolving P&C Market

06/18/2026

Investment strategy may become an increasingly important differentiator for P&C insurers. This viewpoint explores how P&C insurers are evolving portfolio construction through structured credit, private markets, and diversified income-oriented strategies while balancing risk, liquidity, and capital efficiency.


These views and opinions are those of the authors at the time of writing, may be subject to change, are for informational purposes only, and they should not be construed as investment advice or a recommendation for the purchase or sale of securities by Conning. The information may not be current and Conning has no obligation to provide any updates or changes. Individual portfolio management teams for Conning may have views and opinions and/or make investment decisions that, in certain instance, may not always be consistent with the views and opinions expressed therein. While any third-party data used is considered reliable, its accuracy is not guaranteed.