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Profit attributable to shareholders increased by 11 per cent or $468 million from $4,084 million in 2012 to $4,552 million in 2013. The majority of this increase was attributable to the LME business, acquired in December 2012, which contributed a full year’s profit of $326 million in 2013 (2012: $19 million). Increased trading fees from higher trading volumes on the Stock Exchange and the Futures Exchange were offset by weaker net investment income, higher depreciation and amortisation, and finance costs incurred for funding the acquisition of the LME Group.
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