Insurance succession in South West

Name: Insurance business succession in South West
Creator: ExitRadar
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167 of 318 insurance companies in South West — 52.5% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured318

Director aged 60+167

Exposure rate52.5%

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

318

Companies measured

167

Director 60+

Director 70+

52.5%

Exposure rate

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

Measure	Companies
Insurance companies in South West measured	318
Oldest director aged 60 or over	167
Oldest director aged 70 or over	57

Of the 167 with a director over 60, 21 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%
London	618	55.7%
South East	339	53.9%
West Midlands	141	50.7%
Yorkshire & The Humber	142	49.5%
North West	185	47.9%

Other trades in South West

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	6,658	43%
Lettings	6,114	44.9%
Retail	4,239	32%
Other Leisure	3,124	36%
Agriculture	2,777	56.9%
Property Development	2,716	48.2%
Investment	2,685	37.7%
Investment / Fund Management	2,473	40%

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 West", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/fin-insurance/south-west/

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.