The Bollywood comedy Queen grabbed six gongs at the 60th Filmfare Awards on Saturday, including Best Director for Vikas Bahl and Best Actress for Kangana Ranaut.
Vishal Bhardwaj's Shakespearean drama Haider won awards in five categories – including Best Actor for Shahid Kapoor, Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Tabu and Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Kay Kay Menon.
Abhishek Varman won Best Debut Director for the romantic comedy 2 States, starring Alia Bhatt and Arjun Kapoor. Best Dialogue and Best Screenplay went to Aamir Khan's PK. But other big films tipped to win major gongs, including Shah Rukh Khan's Happy New Year and Priyanka Chopra's Mary Kom, were left out. The popular singer Arijit Singh went home empty-handed, too – Ankit Tiwari was named Best Playback Singer for the track Galliyan from Ek Villain.
* The winners:
Best Film – Queen
Best Director – Vikas Bahl (Queen)
Best Actor – Shahid Kapoor (Haider)
Best Actress – Kangana Ranaut (Queen)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Female) – Tabu (Haider)
Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Male) – Kay Kay Menon (Haider)
Best Debut director – Abhishek Varman (2 States)
Best Actor (Critics) – Sanjay Mishra (Ankhon Dekhi)
Best Actress (Critics) – Alia Bhatt (Highway)
Best Film (Critics) – Rajat Kapoor (Ankhon Dekhi)
Best Music Director – Shankar-Eshaan-Loy (2 States)
Best Lyrics – Rashmi Singh - Muskurane Ki Wajah (CityLights)
Best Debut (Male): Fawad Khan, Khoobsurat
Best Debut (Female): Kriti Sanon, Heropanti
Best Story: Rajat Kapoor, Ankhon Dekhi
Best Dialogue: Abhijat Joshi and Rajkumar Hirani, PK
Best Screenplay: Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Joshi, PK
Best Playback Singer (Male): Ankit Tiwari, Galliyan (Ek Villain)
Best Playback Singer (Female): Kanika Kapoor, Baby Doll (Ragini MMS 2)
Lifetime Achievement Award: Kamini Kaushal
Best Choreography Award: Ahmed Khan, Jumme Ki Raat (Kick)
Best Background Score: Amit Trivedi, Queen
Best Cinematography Award: Bobby Singh and Siddharth Diwan, Queen
Best Action: Sham Kaushal, Gunday
Best Editing: Abhijit Kokate and Anurag Kashyap, Queen
Best Production Design: Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray, Haider
Best Costume: Dolly Ahluwalia, Haider
Best Sound Design Award: Anilkumar Konakandla and Prabal Pradhan, Mardaani
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A High Court judge issued an interim order on Friday suspending a decision by Agriculture Minister Edwin Poots to direct a stop to Brexit agri-food checks at Northern Ireland ports.
Mr Justice Colton said he was making the temporary direction until a judicial review of the minister's unilateral action this week to order a halt to port checks that are required under the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Civil servants have yet to implement the instruction, pending legal clarity on their obligations, and checks are continuing.
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Mercer, the investment consulting arm of US services company Marsh & McLennan, expects its wealth division to at least double its assets under management (AUM) in the Middle East as wealth in the region continues to grow despite economic headwinds, a company official said.
Mercer Wealth, which globally has $160 billion in AUM, plans to boost its AUM in the region to $2-$3bn in the next 2-3 years from the present $1bn, said Yasir AbuShaban, a Dubai-based principal with Mercer Wealth.
“Within the next two to three years, we are looking at reaching $2 to $3 billion as a conservative estimate and we do see an opportunity to do so,” said Mr AbuShaban.
Mercer does not directly make investments, but allocates clients’ money they have discretion to, to professional asset managers. They also provide advice to clients.
“We have buying power. We can negotiate on their (client’s) behalf with asset managers to provide them lower fees than they otherwise would have to get on their own,” he added.
Mercer Wealth’s clients include sovereign wealth funds, family offices, and insurance companies among others.
From its office in Dubai, Mercer also looks after Africa, India and Turkey, where they also see opportunity for growth.
Wealth creation in Middle East and Africa (MEA) grew 8.5 per cent to $8.1 trillion last year from $7.5tn in 2015, higher than last year’s global average of 6 per cent and the second-highest growth in a region after Asia-Pacific which grew 9.9 per cent, according to consultancy Boston Consulting Group (BCG). In the region, where wealth grew just 1.9 per cent in 2015 compared with 2014, a pickup in oil prices has helped in wealth generation.
BCG is forecasting MEA wealth will rise to $12tn by 2021, growing at an annual average of 8 per cent.
Drivers of wealth generation in the region will be split evenly between new wealth creation and growth of performance of existing assets, according to BCG.
Another general trend in the region is clients’ looking for a comprehensive approach to investing, according to Mr AbuShaban.
“Institutional investors or some of the families are seeing a slowdown in the available capital they have to invest and in that sense they are looking at optimizing the way they manage their portfolios and making sure they are not investing haphazardly and different parts of their investment are working together,” said Mr AbuShaban.
Some clients also have a higher appetite for risk, given the low interest-rate environment that does not provide enough yield for some institutional investors. These clients are keen to invest in illiquid assets, such as private equity and infrastructure.
“What we have seen is a desire for higher returns in what has been a low-return environment specifically in various fixed income or bonds,” he said.
“In this environment, we have seen a de facto increase in the risk that clients are taking in things like illiquid investments, private equity investments, infrastructure and private debt, those kind of investments were higher illiquidity results in incrementally higher returns.”
The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, one of the largest sovereign wealth funds, said in its 2016 report that has gradually increased its exposure in direct private equity and private credit transactions, mainly in Asian markets and especially in China and India. The authority’s private equity department focused on structured equities owing to “their defensive characteristics.”
