Vets in Abu Dhabi
BVC
Khaleej Al Arabi Street
T +971 2 665 0085
F +971 2 665 0014
info@britvet.ae
www.britvet.com
Routine opening hours
Sunday to Thursday
7.30am to 10pm
Saturday
8am to 7pm
Emergency cases will be seen any time. The Emergency number when the office is closed is 050 615 1711. Please Note, emergency fees are higher than regular fees.
AVC
T +971 2 665 5044
F +971 2 665 5173
Kennel Contact:
T +971 2 551 1578
F +971 2 551 1375
avc@emirates.net.ae
www.avcclinic.com
Hours: consultations by appointment only
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday
7.30am to 6.30pm
Wednesday
7.30am to 7.30pm
Friday
8.00am to 12:00pm
(No doctor consultations – open for boarding, pet drop off/collection and sales.)
Saturday
Closed
Monday
11am to 12pm
Closed for staff continuing education
Kennel Hours :
Sunday - Thursday
9am to 5pm
Friday
8am - 11.45am
Saturday
Closed
German Veterinary Clinic
T 02 556 2024
F 02 556 2036
050 681 7864
gvc.abudhabi@hotmail.com
www.germanvet.ae
Opening hours:
Sunday to Thursday: 8am to 6.30pm
Veterinary consultations by appointment only.
The clinic offers exclusive services such as puppy socialisation classes or “puppy parties". It also organises the Pet Slimmer of the Year competition, which uses state-of-the-art slimming technology to ascertain your pets target weights, in order to help deal with animal obesity exacerbated by the hot climate and the desire to stay indoors.
Falcon Hospital
The Abu Dhabi Falcon Hospital is located near Abu Dhabi International Airport. Its premises can be found on the right side along the Abu Dhabi-Sweihan road 3km after the Sweihan Bridge.
+971 2 575 5155
info@falconhospital.com
Sending your pets home
Snoopy Pets is an export pet company www.snoopypets.com
Beware, it is not a quick process to export your pet. It usually takes seven months to do all the paperwork to transport a pet under the pet passport scheme, so they bypass quarantine.
To the UK
Shipping cost: Dh13,279
(includes price of rabies test and travel crate)
Quarantine: If the dog or cat has received the rabies titer and waited six months after the test, the animal will not be quarantined. Pets without the full six months on record will have to spend the remaining time in quarantine.
To Australia
Shipping cost: Dh17,839
(includes price of rabies titer test and travel crate)
Quarantine: Pets must wait at least 60 days after the rabies titer before being imported. The quarantine period is 180 days minus the amount of time spent before travelling to Australia, with a minimum of 30 days.
To the US
Shipping cost: Dh15,612
if travelling as cargo (includes travel crate), or Dh1,024 as excess baggage (does not include excess-baggage fees)
There is no quarantine period for pets travelling to the US.
COMPANY PROFILE
Name: Kumulus Water
Started: 2021
Founders: Iheb Triki and Mohamed Ali Abid
Based: Tunisia
Sector: Water technology
Number of staff: 22
Investment raised: $4 million
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.”
COMPANY PROFILE
● Company: Bidzi
● Started: 2024
● Founders: Akshay Dosaj and Asif Rashid
● Based: Dubai, UAE
● Industry: M&A
● Funding size: Bootstrapped
● No of employees: Nine
Countdown to Zero exhibition will show how disease can be beaten
Countdown to Zero: Defeating Disease, an international multimedia exhibition created by the American Museum of National History in collaboration with The Carter Center, will open in Abu Dhabi a month before Reaching the Last Mile.
Opening on October 15 and running until November 15, the free exhibition opens at The Galleria mall on Al Maryah Island, and has already been seen at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum in Atlanta, the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.