The most profitable performance for six years has been turned in by the Standard Club, the first of the protection-and-indemnity (P&I) mutuals to report a financial result.

The club rang up a surplus of $43.1m in the year to the 20 February renewal, lifting its free reserve to more than $433m.

Both underwriting and investments contributed to the result, which is the club’s best since the year to February 2011.

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