Insurance succession in South East

Name: Insurance business succession in South East
Creator: ExitRadar
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407 of 749 insurance companies in South East (54.3%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured749

Director aged 60+407

Exposure rate54.3%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

749

Companies measured

407

Director 60+

163

Director 70+

54.3%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; insurance nationally runs at 58.4%.

Measure	Companies
Insurance companies in South East measured	749
Oldest director aged 60 or over	407
Oldest director aged 70 or over	163

Of the 407 with a director over 60, 44 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Insurance in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
London	1,502	70%
East of England	273	55.3%
East Midlands	164	53.6%
South West	169	52.3%
West Midlands	165	51.4%
Yorkshire & The Humber	156	50.5%
North West	194	47.7%

Other trades in South East

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	16,025	41.1%
Lettings	11,044	42%
Retail	7,147	27.8%
Investment	6,093	33.4%
IT Services / Consultancy	5,861	25.1%
Other Leisure	5,831	33.2%
Investment / Fund Management	5,134	39.8%
Property Development	4,665	46%

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 South East", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/fin-insurance/south-east/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as 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 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use 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 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.