Investment: business succession in the UK

Name: Investment business succession in the UK
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41,621 UK investment companies — 29.9% — have a director aged 60 or over.

2.6 points below the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured139,068

Director aged 60+41,621

Exposure rate29.9%

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

139,068

Companies measured

41,621

With a director 60+

15,920

With a director 70+

29.9%

Exposure rate

Of the 41,621 with a director over 60, 1,875 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Investment by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
Northern Ireland	2,152	939	43.6%
South West	7,125	2,685	37.7%
Scotland	6,251	2,104	33.7%
South East	15,979	5,385	33.7%
Wales	3,496	1,120	32%
East of England	9,691	2,999	30.9%
Yorkshire & The Humber	8,001	2,335	29.2%
London	50,740	14,536	28.6%
West Midlands	10,863	2,985	27.5%
North East	3,352	915	27.3%
East Midlands	6,956	1,867	26.8%
North West	14,413	3,734	25.9%

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

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Investment: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/prop-investment/

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.