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FAAA launches digital client identification tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2025
... verification platform, will be available on December 10. The tool conducts immediate ID verification, politically exposed person (PEP) and sanctions checks. It also provides a report product providers can use to rely on the result of these checks. "With ...

FEATURE: Fund admin | Tight Ship

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2025
... From online verification of citizens from other countries to anti-money laundering to KYCs and Politically Exposed Persons (PEP) - technology has been an enabler for the most challenging and tedious compliance processes. "If there was no technology ...

Pacific Equity Partners takes stake in data centres

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
Pacific Equity Partners will buy 75% of Spark New Zealand's data centre business. The investment is being made via the PEP Secure Asset Fund, and the transaction values the business at up to $705 million. All of Spark's data centre assets and operations ...

Blue Owl adds to local team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2025
... former Future Fund deputy chief investment officer Alicia Gregory and ex-PIMCO executive John Valtwies on the local team. At PEP, Jones was a director within the private equity firm's partner and client group. Before that, she had 15 years of institutional ...

Australia's largest buyout firm hires from State Street GA

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
... into the financial adviser and wholesale investor market, and I'm excited to lead this expansion," he said. Alex Ovchar, PEP managing director and member of the partner and client group, commented: "Alex is excited at the prospect of continuing to ...

Escala poised to overhaul strategy

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... appointment of a new chief executive, according to people familiar with the matter. Two senior executives - co-chief executive Pep Perry and investment chief Tracy McNaughton - are expected to leave the firm in June. Torty Howard will step down from ...

Robeco launches two new strategies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
Robeco is strengthening its position in transition investing with the launch of two new equity strategies for institutional investors, and the repositioning of two fixed income strategies. Robeco said the strategies allow investors to tap into the growth ...

Average super balances fall

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2024
Taxation statistics for the 2021-22 financial year revealed the average superannuation balance fell from $170,000 in 2020-21 to $164,000. The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) released its annual taxation statistics report, showing the total tax revenue ...

QIC splashes $32m on PEP acquisition

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2024
Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) lent $32 million to back Pacific Equity Partners' (PEP) acquisition of ATOM Group, an industrial and safety goods distributor. QIC Private Debt made the transaction via PEP's Fund VII. PEP flagged late ...

PE deals tumble again, down 63%: Bain & Company

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... fund Fund V, which targets mid-market growth investments, after three months of fund raising. Pacific Equity Partners' (PEP) was a notable mention in the report for the progress of its Secure Assets Fund launched in 2018. "Since global and local ...