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Conning Achieves Top Score in Relevant Fixed Income Categories and Investment & Stewardship Policy in its Latest PRI Assessment Report
10/04/2022
Firm Advancing Incorporation of ESG Principles into Investment Practices as well as Operations.
Sean Kurian Discusses Challenges for U.K. Pension Funds and Insurance Companies in Insurance Asset Risk
10/03/2022
Sean Kurian, head of Conning’s Institutional Solutions team, comments on the recent challenges for U.K. pension funds and insurance companies.
Matt Daly Discusses Companies' Increased Cost to Refinance in Rising Rate Environment
09/28/2022
Matt Daly, head of corporate and municipal teams at Conning, commented about the increased cost for companies to refinance in a rising rate environment.
Conning Viewpoint: Five Investment Themes to Help Insurers Navigate Challenges Amid the Shifting Credit Cycle
09/21/2022
Matt Daly, head of Conning’s Corporate and Municipal Teams, provides an overview of strategies that may help insurers manage through the current market challenges.
Why insurers must innovate. Conning study lifts the lid on the world’s most innovative insurance market.
09/12/2022
A new report from Conning, sponsored by Amwins, explores why demand for innovative insurance is growing in the U.S. and examines the critical role played by the excess and surplus lines (E&S) market in meeting this demand.
Conning Launches Free Stochastic Climate Scenario Data Set
09/01/2022
Conning is pleased to announce the release of a free stochastic climate stress scenario data set for use in market risk analysis.
Conning — Property-Casualty Industry Loss Reserve Adequacy Level Barely Changed in 2021; Favorable Development in 2021 Slightly Less than in 2020
09/01/2022
The Conning study, “2021 Property-Casualty Loss Reserves: Inflation Looming, No Time for Vacation” reviews the property-casualty industry’s loss reserve position at the end of 2021, by line of business and in total. In the study, Conning includes estimated ranges of reserve adequacy levels for the industry and for small, midsized, and large insurance companies.
Octagon's Mike Nechamkin featured on the Last Tranche
08/30/2022
In this episode of the Last Tranche, Mike Nechamkin, chief investment officer and senior portfolio manager at Conning’s affiliate, Octagon Credit Investors, discusses the reasons he believes are behind the recovery in loan prices in recent weeks.
Quantifying the Financial Impacts of Climate Change
08/25/2022
The growing threats of extreme weather and climate tipping points pose risks to financial markets that current climate scenarios do not capture. Conning’s new white paper, co-authored with the University of Maryland, introduces a novel approach to modeling the interaction between physical and transition risk, providing a more robust way of quantifying the possibility of financial impact.
Matt Reilly Discusses Market Volatility and Economy Uncertainty with AM Best TV
08/12/2022
Matt Reilly, a managing director, speaks with AM Best TV about how market volatility and economic uncertainty are causing many insurers to adopt more defensive investment strategies, a move that may impact growth prospects.