Order of play for Thursday’s action at the All-England Club in UAE time.
(With delays, outer courts play only started in full at about 6pm UAE)
Centre court 4pm
Juan Martin del Potro (ARG) v Stan Wawrinka (SUI x4)
Serena Williams (USA) v Christina McHale (USA)
Roger Federer (SUI x3) v Daniel Evans (GBR)
Court One 4pm
Venus Williams (USA x8) v Daria Kasatkina (RUS x29)
Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) v Sam Querrey (USA 28)
Jack Sock (USA x27) v Milos Raonic (CAN x6)
Court Two 1pm
Nick Kyrgios (AUS x15) v Dustin Brown (GER)
Petra Kvitova (CZE x10) v Ekaterina Makarova (RUS)
Andrey Kuznetsov (RUS) v Kei Nishikori (JPN x5)
Simona Halep (ROU x5) v Kiki Bertens (NED x26)
No 3 Court 1pm
Benjamin Becker (GER) v Tomas Berdych (CZE x10)
Tara Moore (GBR) v Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x13)
David Goffin (BEL x11) v Denis Istomin (UZB)
Lucie Safarova (CZE x28) v Jana Cepelova (SVK)
No 12 Court 1pm
Juan Monaco (ARG) v Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (FRA x12)
Timea Bacsinszky (SUI x11) v Monica Niculescu (ROU)
Marin Cilic (CRO x9) v Lukas Lacko (SVK)
Carina Witthoft (GER) v Angelique Kerber (Ger x4)
No 18 Court 1pm
John Isner (USA x18) v Matthew Barton (AUS)
Sloane Stephens (USA x18) v Mandy Minella (LUX)
Steve Johnson (USA) v Grigor Dimitrov (BUL)
Alize Cornet (FRA) v Madison Keys (USA x9)
No 4 Court 1pm
Yulia Putintseva (KAZ) v Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS x21)
No 5 Court 1pm
Anabel Medina Garrigues (ESP) & Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP) x14 v Barbora Krejikova (CZE) & Katerina Siniakova (CZE)
Dusan Lajovic (SRB) & Viktor Troicki (SRB) v Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR) & Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR)
Kristen Flipkens (BEL) & Andrea Petkovic (GER) v Johanna Konta (GBR) & Maria Sanchez (USA)
Julia Gorges (GER) & Karolina Pliskova (CZE) x8 v Denisa Allertova (CZE) & Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (SVK)
No 6 Court 1pm
Leonardo Mayer (ARG) & Joao Sousa (POR) v Sam Groth (AUS) & Robert Lindtstedt (SWE)
Ivan Dodig (CRO) & Marcelo Melo (BRA) x5 v Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) & Benoit Paire (FRA)
Brydan Klein (GBR) & Alexander Ward (GBR) v Pablo Cuevas (URU) & Marcel Granollers (ESP) x15
Henri Kontinen (FIN) & John Peers (AUS) x10 v Nicholas Monroe (USA) & Donald Young (USA)
No 7 Court 1pm
Annika Beck (GER) v Aliaksandra Sasnovich (BLR)
Lu Yen-hsun (TPE) & Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) v Marcin Matkowski (POL) & Leander Paes (IND)
Louisa Chirico (USA) & Alison Riske (USA) v Annika Beck (GER) & Yanina Wickmayer (BEL)
Fabrice Martin (FRA) & Olga Savchuk (UKR) v Chris Guccione (AUS) & Elina Svitolina (UKR)
Demi Schuurs (NED) & Renata Voracova (CZE) v Caroline Garcia (FRA) & Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) x2
No 8 Court 1pm
Alexander Zverev (GER x24) v Mikhail Youzhny (RUS)
Andrea Hlavackova (CZE) & Lucie Hradecka (CZE) x6 v Liang Chen (CHN) & Wang Yafan (CHN)
Misaki Doi (JPN) v Anna-Lena Friedsam (GER)
Santiago Gonzalez (MEX) & Arantxa Parra Santonja (ESP) v Michael Venus (NZL) & Maria Irigoyen (ARG)
No 9 Court 1pm
Johan Brunstrom (SWE) & Andreas Siljestrom (SWE) v Andrej Martin (SVK) & Hans Podlipnik-Castillo (CHI)
Lleyton Hewitt (AUS) & Jordan Thompson (AUS) v Nicolas Almagro (ESP) & David Marrero (ESP)
Treat Huey (PHI) & Alicja Rosolska (POL) v Marcelo Demoliner (BRA) & Nicole Melichar (USA)
Florin Mergea (ROU) & Tamira Paszek (AUT) v Artem Sitak (NZL) & Laura Siegemund (GER)
No 10 Court 1pm
Sanchai Ratiwatana (THA) & Sonchat Ratiwatana (THA) v Oliver Marach (AUT) & Fabrice Martin (FRA)
Lara Arruabarrena (ESP) & Danka Kovinic (MNE) v Jelena Jankovic (SRB) & Aleksandra Krunic (SRB)
Juan-Sebastian Cabal (COL) & Mariana Duque-Marino (COL) v Mate Pavic (CRO) & Daria Jurak (CRO)
Fabio Fognini (ITA) & Andreas Seppi (ITA) v Dominic Inglot (GBR) & Daniel Nestor (CAN) x9
No 11 Court 1pm
Marina Erakovic (NZL) v Carla Suarez Navarro (ESP x12)
No 14 Court 1pm
Guido Pella (ARG) & Horacio Zeballos (ARG) v Guillermo Duran (ARG) & Maximo Gonzalez (ARG)
Julien Benneteau (FRA) & Edouard Roger-Vasselin (FRA) v Marc Lopez (ESP) & Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP)
Julian Knowle (AUT) & Zhang Shuai (CHN) v Maximo Gonzalez (ARG) & Raluca Olaru (ROU)
Stephane Robert (FRA) & Dudi Sela (ISR) v Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) & Mikhail Youzhny (RUS)
No 15 Court 1pm
Evgeniya Rodina (RUS) v Barbora Strycova (CZE x24)
No 16 Court 1pm
Fabio Fognini (ITA) v Feliciano Lopez (ESP x22)
Sabine Lisicki (GER) v Yaroslava Shvedova (KAZ)
Gilles Muller (LUX) & Frederik Nielsen (DEN) v Raven Klaasen (RSA) & Rajeev Ram (USA) x11
No 17 Court 1pm
Lucas Pouille (FRA x32) v Donald Young (USA)
Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA) v Nicolas Mahut (FRA)
No 19 Court 1pm
Marina Draganja (CRO) & Nikola Mektic (CRO) v Rohan Bopanna (IND) & Florin Mergea (ROU) x6
Ken Skupski (GBR) & Neal Skupski (GBR) v Lukasz Kubot (POL) & Alexander Peya (AUT) x7
Scott Lipsky (USA) & Alla Kudryavtseva (RUS) v Guillermo Duran (ARG) & Liang Chen (CHN)
Colin Fleming (GBR) & Jocelyn Rae (GBR) v Neal Skupski (GBR) & Anna Smith (GBR)
TBA not before 8pm
Naomi Broady (GBR) & Heather Watson (GBR) v Cagla Buyukakcay (TUR) & Klaudia Jans-Ignacik (POL)
TBA not before 8pm
David Marrero (ESP) & Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez (ESP) v Matwe Middelkoop (NED) & Oksana Kalashnikova (GEO)
TBA not before 8pm
Kyle Edmund (GBR) & James Ward (GBR) v Federico Delbonis (ARG) & Diego Schwartzman (ARG)
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- Nord Anglia International School (Dubai) – Dh85,032
- Kings School Al Barsha (Dubai) – Dh71,905
- Brighton College Abu Dhabi - Dh68,560
- Jumeirah English Speaking School (Dubai) – Dh59,728
- Gems Wellington International School – Dubai Branch – Dh58,488
- The British School Al Khubairat (Abu Dhabi) - Dh54,170
- Dubai English Speaking School – Dh51,269
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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.”
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- Premier League-standard football pitch
- 400m Olympic running track
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- 600-seat auditorium
- Spaces for historical and cultural exploration
- An elevated football field that doubles as a helipad
- Specialist robotics and science laboratories
- AR and VR-enabled learning centres
- Disruption Lab and Research Centre for developing entrepreneurial skills
