Insurance succession in London

Name: Insurance business succession in London
Creator: ExitRadar
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618 of 1,109 insurance companies in London — 55.7% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,109

Director aged 60+618

Exposure rate55.7%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

1,109

Companies measured

618

Director 60+

251

Director 70+

55.7%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; insurance nationally runs at 51.6%.

Measure	Companies
Insurance companies in London measured	1,109
Oldest director aged 60 or over	618
Oldest director aged 70 or over	251

Of the 618 with a director over 60, 42 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Insurance in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
East of England	218	55.8%
South East	339	53.9%
South West	167	52.5%
West Midlands	141	50.7%
Yorkshire & The Humber	142	49.5%
North West	185	47.9%

Other trades in London

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	20,963	33.6%
Consultancy Services	19,678	28.2%
Investment	14,536	28.6%
Investment / Fund Management	10,116	33.7%
Other Leisure	10,038	26.5%
Media	9,313	28%
Retail	9,210	15.2%
IT Services / Consultancy	7,702	15.8%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Financial Services pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Insurance succession in London", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/fin-insurance/london/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.