A near $30m surplus has boosted the free reserve of the Swedish Club to more than $150m.

The Gothenburg based marine mutual made an underwriting profit of $17.7m with the investment portfolio contributing another $11.8m

The Swedish Club is the first of the protection and indemnity mutuals to report with low claims and positive investment results pointing to last year being generally financially favourable.

Lars Rhodin
The P&I book of the club grew 20% over the year to 1.387