Ep 89 Jeff Radke CEO Accelerant Holdings: Searching for gems & avoiding landmines

Jeff Radke is someone who has had senior roles in many areas of
the insurance and reinsurance spectrum. His career ranges from
reinsurance broking at Guy Carpenter to running PXRE, one of the
last major Bermudian specialist retro writers. He then played a
large variety of senior roles in over a decade at Argo Group, the
internationally diversified specialty insurance and reinsurance
group formed out of Argonaut’s takeover of PXRE in 2007. But all
those roles had one thing in common – all of them were at the
very least one step removed from the end customer In his latest
venture he is applying all that experience to the world of
ultra-specialised, ultra-client-focused MGAs. It is a really
interesting proposition because Jeff knows from his own
experience that reinsurers and speciality insurers are keen to
access portfolios of stable commercial risk to help balance their
own increasingly volatile books Meanwhile after the shake-out and
instability of the last couple of years, quality MGAs are looking
for really solid and committed paper providers. Accelerant does
all the things that other MGA incubators are doing including
providing and sourcing growth capital, but it also uses its own
paper and sources long-term third party insurance capital for its
MGA members to give a complete service. It is clear that Jeff is
incredibly energised by this project and I think it comes out all
the way through this podcast. Listen on for a really interesting
and fun encounter with someone who has clearly got the bit
between his teeth. LINKS We thank our naming sponsor AdvantageGo
- enabling an enterprise view of exposure:
https://www.advantagego.com/ We also thank Claims Direct Access
(CDA) for their support today:
https://www.claimsdirectaccess.com/