Lloyd's gains from best first half in five years

The interior of the Lloyd's building in London

Lloyd's has recorded its best first-half results for five years, according to figures from Aon Benfield, reporting a pre-tax profit of £1.5bn for the first six months of 2012.

The London market was aided by a quiet catastrophe season in the first half of the year, in which major losses were limited to £304m, over half of which came from the sinking of the Costa Concordia in

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