Australian Immigration Daily News

Migration Alliance is very pleased to announce that we have entered into a heads of agreement with BW Capital to provide strategic consulting services to clients of Migration Alliance members.  

BW Capital is the first “non-product” aligned professional financial partner that we have worked with and we are very excited about the innovative financial ideas and solutions that BW Capital brings to Migration Alliance members operating in the Investor Visa space.   

BW Capital is an independent asset consultant, providing specialist asset management services, research, advice and consulting to Institutional and Professional Investors, Ultra High Net Worth individuals and Family Offices. The firm was formed nearly 20 years ago as part of one of the then big four accounting firms - Arthur Andersen, after the global dissolution of Arthur Andersen in 2002 the senior team formed BW Capital. The result being one of the highest calibre, independent strategic financial management firm in the Asia-pacific, with deep skill sets spanning banking, capital markets and accounting.   

BW Capital offices are located in Sydney, Melbourne, Hong Kong and London, having key strategic clients such as Governments, Trustees, Universities and high-profile Individuals. BW Capital operates with the core business values of; Independence, Innovation, Scientific basis and Proactivity. The depth and breadth of BW Capital experience and skills have been tasked to finding new and improved ways of solving the Migrant Investor core financial problems, including turning on its head the traditional “set and forget” approach to SIV (“Significant Investor Visa”) solutions.          

Under the Significant Investor Visa (SIV-188 Visa) process, applicants are required to deploy a total of A$5million over a continuous 4-year period under investment programs which must rigidly comply with the stated SIV regime legislative specifications. The decision to invest in complying investments is not as straight forward as it looks, most of the programs as offered in the marketplace now only solve one aspect of the complicated compliance requirement and almost all don’t fulfil the entire gambit of the regulatory obligations. 

Additionally, many of the solutions peddled to market today are non-transparent and highly fee orientated – with little or scant regard really being given to the real financial returns flowing back to the SIV investor. Accordingly, BW Capital has applied their firm’s intellectual horsepower and business processes to developing an innovative approach to the SIV marketplace which seeks to deliver best of breed, “transparent”, performance centric outcomes chain-linked to a holistic, end to end approach to implementing and managing their entire SIV program.      

Sophia Dpenha of BW Capital has been quoted as saying - “Just because our clients want to avail themselves to an SIV pathway into Australian residency, doesn’t mean that they should simply throw their money away and suffer administrative headaches”.

BW Capital is serious about ensuring that every single migrating client sees that their money works just as hard as they do, and not only that, but also the administrative obligations of the program are equally very well executed. 

Beyond the SIV program, BW Capital are able to provide a wide bandwidth of boutique advisory and financial problem solving to our clients, regardless of wherever they are now and wherever in the world they would like to go. BW Capital already advises and manages money all over the planet, in many different markets and currencies. 

Sophia Dpenha says “We recognise that our clients need more than just execution of complying asset management, they need a strategic navigator that can independently guide them through any financial process, independently look out for their best financial interests and ensure that their hard earned wealth is protected and grows”.  

For any more information on this press release, BW Capital or their strategic services please contact Sophia Dpenha directly on +61 (0)405 225 536 or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. .