Who owns UK companies in Non-life insurance?

2,213 of the 4,558 companies registered under SIC 65120 (Non-life insurance) filed a list of shareholders with their most recent confirmation statement. Between them, those lists name 3,999 individual shareholders and 1,407 companies, trusts and other entities.

In this industry:

• 51% file full, group or medium-sized accounts, a sign of larger businesses, compared with 8.2% of all UK companies — about 6 times the national rate.
• 73% have at least one company among their shareholders, compared with 33% of all UK companies — about twice the national rate.
• 45% are majority-owned by another company (among companies with one class of shares), compared with 22% of all UK companies — about twice the national rate.
• The median company is 17.4 years old, against 8.5 years across all UK companies.

How companies in this industry are owned

* Among the 545 companies in this industry that have a single class of shares and state the number of shares allotted, where a holding's share of the company can be read directly from the filing. A dash means fewer than 30 companies, too few to report.

Company size and age

The median company in this industry was incorporated 17.4 years ago (all UK companies: 8.5 years).

Related industries

• Life insurance SIC 65110 · 1,064 companies · 31% majority-owned by a company
• Non-life reinsurance SIC 65202 · 939 companies · 36% majority-owned by a company
• Life reinsurance SIC 65201 · 540 companies · 34% majority-owned by a company
• Pension funding SIC 65300 · 328 companies · 55% majority-owned by a company

Corporate shareholders in this industry

The 1,000 companies and other entities holding shares in the most companies under SIC 65120, out of 1,306 named as shareholders on those companies' latest confirmation statements. 184 of them hold shares in more than one company in this industry. Trusts and individuals are not named.

About this data

Figures come from the shareholder lists in each company's most recent Companies House confirmation statement (form CS01) that contained one, filed between 10 February 2021 and 9 June 2026. They are as filed and are not restated for later share transfers. Shares held in treasury are excluded. Shareholders are classed as individuals, companies, non-UK entities, trusts or nominees from the names as filed.

Every company's own shareholder register, officers, filings and accounts are available through the OpenRegistry API and MCP server, live from Companies House.