Build, Buy or Hybrid
Your underwriting expertise. A business to build
Peloton backs experienced underwriters and MGA teams who want to build, grow or restructure a specialist underwriting business. You bring the insight and the market. The elseco group brings the infrastructure behind you.
Why Peloton
Your ideas.
Our infrastructure.
In a peloton, riders share the effort and go further together.
Peloton applies the same idea to specialist underwriting. Your team leads. The elseco group brings the experience, technology and operating support behind it, so you can focus on underwriting and distribution.
Three routes
Three ways to start.
Choose the route that matches where your business is today.
Build
Start a new specialist underwriting business around a market you know.
Starting point: an underwriting thesis and a founding team.
Buy
Take an established MGA to its next stage, with a partner that understands the business.
Starting point: an existing business and its owners.
Hybrid
Move an experienced underwriting team into a structure of its own.
Starting point: a team ready for its next step.
The elseco group
What stands behind you.
Since 2006
20
years of specialist underwriting in the elseco group.
Capacity
50+
capacity providers working with the elseco group.
Technology
ATOM
the insurance operating system that runs elseco's underwriting, finance and reporting. Peloton businesses can run on it.
Premium
$500m+
[ of gross written premium processed through ATOM. To validate ]
Availability, appetite and terms of capacity depend on each opportunity.
How it works
You focus on the business. We work on the rest with you.
Building an MGA takes more than underwriting. Peloton connects your proposition with the operating model it needs, from the first conversation.
Your team leads
Underwriting decisions
Broker and client relationships
Growth of the book
The group supports
Technology and data, on ATOM
Operations and finance
Governance and compliance
Capacity relationships
Selection
What we look for.
Peloton is selective. We assess every opportunity as a business, not a concept.
Underwriting insight
A clear edge in a market you know, and an honest view of the risks.
Distribution
Real relationships with brokers and clients, and a realistic route to market.
Execution
A team able to run a disciplined operation.
Accountability
Openness on performance, governance and decisions.
Your first conversation
“Great underwriters rarely lack ideas. They lack the structure to build around them. That is what we bring.”
Scott [ Surname ] · [ Role ], Peloton Underwriting
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One point of contact. The whole elseco group behind you.
Tell us what you want to build.
Send a short, non-confidential introduction: your team, your market and the opportunity you see. A member of the Peloton team will get back to you.
No business plans or investor decks at this stage.