Ep278 Jeff Radke Accelerant: Speed matters

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Nov 18, 2025

Jeff Radke, CEO of Accelerant, shares insights on the company's rapid growth and recent IPO. He emphasizes the significance of creating a tech-enabled risk exchange that unites MGAs and capital providers efficiently. The discussion highlights how Accelerant allows insurers to access diversified risk and the importance of data analytics in underwriting. Radke explores the evolving role of owned carriers and predicts global expansion into markets like LATAM and Asia. AI's impact on operational efficiency is also a key theme, showcasing how technology is reshaping the insurance landscape.

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INSIGHT

IPO Delivered Strategic Clarity

Accelerant's IPO gave the company permanence, independence, and clarity of purpose as a risk exchange.
Jeff Radke says the team returned to focusing on members and underwriting profit the very next day.

INSIGHT

Three Pillars Of Member Value

Accelerant offers MGAs three core values: stable capacity, deep analytics, and monetisation of opportunities.
Jeff Radke argues those three elements drive high-quality growth for member MGAs.

ADVICE

Use Carriers As Regulatory Conduits

Use owned insurance companies mainly as regulatory conduits rather than to retain large risk positions.
Retain minimal direct risk and let third-party capital take the bulk for scale and flexibility.

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Today’s guest is someone who is running a business that is moving so fast that every time he comes back on the show we have an enormous amount to talk about and this time it is no different.
Today Jeff Radke CEO of Accelerant is talking to me after a transformational 12 months that has seen his young business continue its heightened growth and IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.
At the Voice of Insurance we have been lucky enough to follow Accelerant’s story at first hand since Jeff’s first appearance four years ago.
The proposition is as tantalising as it has always been.
Good MGAs need stable capital, strong underwriting insights and ultra-efficient processes, while insurers, reinsurers and other capital providers want access to stable, diversified portfolios of profitable insurance risk on a meaningful scale.
Accelerant’s job is to connect everything and everyone up and make sure everybody in the chain can make money and be happy.
It sounds simple but in a highly-competitive regulated industry this can be anything but simple in practice.
As Accelerant’s platform grows and becomes the conduit for low single digit billions in premium volume via over 250 member MGAs, it’s more mature state is coming into view.
The business is evolving to become something far more like a genuine intelligent insurance exchange and underwriting management platform than a mere fronting or hybrid carrier.
This conversation is the best and most transparent I have had with Jeff so far.
Talking to Jeff, it’s easy to see why so much business has flowed in Accelerant’s direction.
Jeff has had huge tech-enabled trends on his side, but he also has charisma in abundance, but then so do many in our business. It’s only when that charisma is combined with the deep knowledge of someone who has sat at almost all points of the insurance and capital value chain in his career that it becomes such a powerful combination.
Listen on – this is a very rich conversation that I can highly recommend to anyone interested in what large swathes of insurance market are going to look like over the next decade and beyond
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