[1] Conning supports institutional investors, including pension plans, with investment and asset management products, risk modeling software, and industry research.

Conning was born in Slingerlands, New York, just outside of Albany on September 16, 1877, and moved to Hartford in 1904 to serve as office manager for investment firm Hornblower & Weeks.

The firm embraced the technology of the day, providing election returns to clients by wire from New York during President Woodrow Wilson’s t narrow, re-election victory in 1916 over Charles Evans Hughes.

In 1920, Conning & Company installed a bond ticker and moved into a newly constructed building on Lewis Street in Hartford.

[8] In August 1998, Conning Asset Management acquired Schroeder Mortgage Associates LP, a small real estate investment company in Manhattan.

Conning Corp. also acquired the insurance company and high-grade fixed income management business of TCW Group, based in Los Angeles.

Later that year, Conning acquired Charter Oak Asset Management of Hartford, and also spun out its MarketStance business in an MBO.

Later that year, Conning and The Phoenix Companies entered into a multiyear investment agreement under which Conning acquired Goodwin Capital Advisers, Inc. and took management control of the Phoenix's publicly traded fixed income general accounts insurance assets totaling approximately $8 billion.

In June 2014, Conning completed the acquisition of certain assets of Brookfield Investment Management Inc.’s Core Fixed Income Insurance Business.

[22][23] In June 2020, Conning Holdings Limited completed the acquisition of a majority interest in the Danish asset management firm Global Evolution.