Eromosele Abiodun
Consistent with its drive to support Nigerians grow their wealth, leading investment immigration wealth management firm, Optiva Capital Partners has restated its commitment to facilitate access to global investment opportunities for discerning High-Net-worth Individuals (HNIs).
At an interactive session with the media in Lagos yesterday, the Managing Director/CEO of Optiva Capital Partners, Ms. Jane Kimemia stated that there is currently an increased incentive for investment immigration, second passport, second citizenship or permanent residency, for investment savvy Nigerians who recognise that these provide global access to boundless opportunities.
According to her, “Our clients are established Nigerians, they are in business, they are executives, so they are very comfortable, but they are looking for global access and acceptance. At Optiva Capital Partners, we are helping our clients to save on what they would have been spending anyway.”
Kimemia further stated that Nigerians being the most global of Africans seek global opportunities to meet the need for their children’s education, healthcare, access to more economies and markets to expand their trade and business.
Kimemia explained that through second citizenship, Optiva Capital assists discerning Nigerians to save scarce foreign exchange because they pay a fraction of what non-citizens pay for education, healthcare, property, amongst other social benefits.
“With a second citizenship through Citizenship By Immigration (CBI) or other investments in government designated programs in exchange for permanent residency, for citizenship and global access, emphasised that these not only give recipients global access, but they are also investments and savings, “she said.
Kimemia further explained why Optiva Capital Partners investment immigration services are targeted at High Networth Individuals (HNIs).
She added that when it comes to the cost of CBI or permanent residency, “the value being sought by clients include their wards’ education thereby making investment immigration a vehicle for clients to protect, to grow, to enhance, to diversify their wealth.
“Someone looking for permanent residency or looking to invest in a programme in Canada, their children’s education in a top flight University will cost $6,000 per annum for a Bachelor’s degree programme as against an international student who will pay about $60,000 annually. At Optiva Capital, we are helping our clients to save on what they would have been spending anyway, so we are saving them the scarce foreign exchange that comes back in developing Nigeria. So we are looking at value, costs, and value across generations as well.”
In order to provide the premium investment immigration services their HNI clientele deserve, Kimemia, informed the select Business Editors that the company has made conscious decisions to be, “where our clients are, and to meet our clients at homes and where they do business, and their offices. Optiva Capital currently has seventeen branches across the country in Lagos, Enugu, Port Harcourt, Warri, Kano, Abuja, and Onitsha.”
She added, “Wherever you go across key markets, you find Optiva Capital Partners. We have a strong extensive distribution and we have invested in our branches and lounges because we do recognise that our clients are high-networth individuals and we take into consideration how we take care of our clients in all our branches.
Additionally, Optiva Capital’s expanding points of sale aligns with its strategy to extend its edge in investment immigration through an operational process which Ms. Kimemia described as being “detailed on documentation and full disclosure. One of the things we do very well at Optiva Capital Partners is the ability to handle that process, right from origination. We have fully developed our process, a fully dedicated process centre, which has access to 50 to 60 people at once, and we have a team that can help us talk to clients in a very holistic way.”
