About
The holding company behind the platforms.
A holding company that sources, acquires, and operates specialized finance businesses, and runs each one on its own underwriting, in-house audit, risk assessment, and active asset management.
- Source & Acquire
- Structure & Management
- Operations & Holdings
Bridging the divide
Sourcing assets capable of providing specialized solutions for specific scenarios.
Our portfolio is built around niche opportunities with downside protection across performing credit, specialty finance, insurance, asset management, and real assets. Through our holding company, we source, acquire, and operate specialized businesses spanning investment management, insurance underwriting, short-term and commercial lending, premium finance, receivables, equipment and contractor finance, distressed-debt acquisition and resolution, and opportunistic asset management. Each platform is supported by underwriting, in-house audit, risk assessment, and active asset management.
When the businesses we back go further, so do we.
- Source & AcquireSpecialty finance, insurance, lending, debt recovery, and asset management
- Structure & ManagementUnderwriting, in-house audit, risk assessment, and active asset management
- Operations & HoldingsSpecialized businesses run through a single holding company
Why it all runs through one company
Every business we run leans on the same four things, and we keep them at the center instead of rebuilding them each time.
We underwrite every asset before a dollar moves. We check the numbers ourselves rather than taking a business at its word. We work out how a deal could go wrong before we decide what it’s worth. And we stay in each business day to day, not from a distance.
Build it once and every business we add gets stronger from day one.
The businesses it holds
Holdings
The holding company
One standard under every platform.
Owns each platform and the four controls under it, underwriting, in-house audit, risk assessment, and active asset management, so the standard is the holding company’s, not the platform’s.
Lending
Credit
Capital for a need the usual path does not cover.
Short-term and commercial loans, premium finance, and equipment, contractor and receivables finance, secured against a specific collateral or contract and serviced in-house.
Cover
Insurance
Protection for a situation that needs its own answer.
Cover we underwrite ourselves, limited to the scenarios our other platforms already understand, so the same file tells credit whether the premium can be financed.
Assets
Asset management
A steady base for the people who depend on it.
Leased, performing property held for the long run, with the rent doing the work and the holding company doing the upkeep; property sits here, not in a separate line.
Programs
Programs
The shape a line takes for one scenario.
Debt recovery, property, and the communities that lean on both, each the shape a line takes for one scenario; shapes, not offers.
Every line above is structured or in research; nothing is formed, and nothing here is an offer.
The three jobs
Every role in the holding company sits under one of three jobs.
Source and Acquire owns the pipeline of specialized businesses across the five lines and the buy-or-build decision on each; Structure and Management owns the control layer applied to that platform; Operations and Holdings owns the platforms as a single group.
- Source & AcquireA platform inside the holding company
- Structure & ManagementAn underwritten, audited book
- Operations & HoldingsThe platforms run as one group, under active asset management
A few plain definitions
Holding company
The company at the center.
The company that sources, acquires, and operates the platforms, and owns the four controls each one runs on.
Platform
One business for one scenario.
A specialized business the holding company owns and runs, built for one scenario in one of the five lines.
Underwriting
Priced first.
Every asset a platform takes on is priced before capital moves.
In-house audit
Checked by us.
Performance is checked by the holding company, not reported by the platform.
Risk assessment
The failure case first.
How the scenario fails is written down before the asset is priced.
Active asset management
Run day to day.
Each business is run day to day; nothing is held passively.