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Connecticut's 2024 Insurance Capital Insights

09/19/2024

The 2024 Connecticut: Insurance Capital Insights (Insights) report marks Conning’s inaugural review of Connecticut’s insurance industry and its pivotal role within the global insurance landscape. 


Commercial Real Estate: Opportunities for Insurers in Multifamily, Industrials and the Suburbs

09/13/2024

Steve Quazzo, CEO of Conning affiliate Pearlmark Real Estate, L.L.C., discusses opportunities in the commercial real estate market for insurers.


Conning’s Strategic Asset Allocation Approach for Life / Annuity Insurers: Empowering Financial Decision-Making for Executives

09/02/2024

Conning explains our holistic approach in developing customized strategic asset allocations for each life-annuity insurer, creating an investment strategy that complements each client’s overall business.


Conning’s Strategic Asset Allocation for P&C Insurers: Empowering Financial Decision-Making for Executives

09/02/2024

Conning explains our holistic approach in developing customized strategic asset allocations for each property-casualty insurer, creating an investment strategy that complements each client’s overall business.


Unlocking Performance: The Rise of Third-Party Managers in Insurer Portfolios

08/21/2024

Insurance Solutions’ Matt Reilly and Lauren Forando document the dynamics of the outsourcing market, noting that, beyond competitive return streams, insurers want managers to provide customized strategies and unique capital-efficient structures and become true business partners.


Geopolitical Risk - Analyzing the Age of Uncertainty

06/25/2024

Geopolitical risk has regained prominence since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but few are familiar with the data and tools available to investigate its effects from a quantitative basis. 


Investment Grade CLO Tranches for Insurers: A Relativist’s Guide

06/12/2024

In this Viewpoint co-authored with affiliate Octagon Credit Investors, Conning discusses the opportunities for insurers in floating-rate debt tranches of collateralized loan obligations, particularly tranches with investment grade ratings.


06/04/2024

Conning’s 2024 State of the States report features a highly interactive format that allows you to dive into the data that drives our annual evaluation of the credit quality of all 50 U.S. states.


The Long Game of Inflation – Dynamic Portfolio Strategies

05/09/2024

Dynamic portfolio strategies may help insurers improve portfolio performance during periods of elevated inflation and interest rates and can help them better prepare as market conditions evolve, reports Yazeed Abu-Sa’a from the Insurance Solutions team.