We can help you with your Active Investor Plus Visa investments
Our service offers you a smooth and effortless experience for you to meet the requirements of the Growth Category or Balanced Category of the Active Investor Plus (AIP) Visa. You will be supported by one of our investment advisers who focus on managing wealth, fostering long-term relationships, and ensuring a smooth transition into investing in New Zealand. Our Specialised Wealth Advisory team will support your investment adviser to guide you through the investment process.
We provide AIP Visa clients with a personalised discretionary investment service to assist in meeting the AIP Visa investment requirements so you can invest in New Zealand’s high value, high growth potential investment opportunities that are tailored to your specific investment objectives.
Your investment adviser will be your primary relationship contact supported by Craigs’ Specialised Wealth Advisory team who provide an additional layer of oversight and monitoring to ensure compliance with the AIP Visa investment requirements. We do this backed by one of the largest in-house research teams in New Zealand. Our Specialised Wealth Advisory team has extensive experience and connections in New Zealand private markets, which is essential in considering acceptable investments for Growth Category AIP Visa clients. In addition Craigs boasts deep research capabilities in New Zealand listed equities and fixed interest with the #1 market share in NZX trading and over $12 billion of client funds invested in New Zealand equities and bonds, making us well placed to manage AIP Visa Balanced Category portfolios.
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How we help
Investment advisers
We have a nationwide network of over 190 investment advisers. Our diverse network includes investment advisers with experience serving international clients and multilingual capabilities, including Mandarin speakers. Every AIP Visa client has a dedicated investment adviser paired with our Specialised Wealth Advisory team. No matter where you contact us from or who your Craigs’ adviser is, you can be assured of being provided with a consistent, thoroughly researched and monitored AIP Visa investment portfolio.
Dedicated team of specialists
The Specialised Wealth Advisory team are experts in private markets, with extensive knowledge of the local private equity, private credit and venture capital market. They advise AIP Visa clients on the most suitable approved managed funds to include within their AIP Visa investment portfolio under the Growth Category.
Your first contact is our Specialist Wealth Advisory team who will work with you to make sure you have the right investment adviser to support your investment journey.
您的首次联系是我们专业财富顾问团队，他们将与您合作，以确保您拥有合适的投资顾问来支持您的投资旅程。如果您想与我们的普通话讲者之一交谈，请点击下面的链接。
Personalised investment portfolio
We’ll create a personalised portfolio just for you, tailored to include a mix of “Acceptable Investments” that match your AIP Visa investment requirements.
Our approach aims to help you achieve these objectives while managing the investment risk at an agreed level by using a diverse combination of approved and available funds and securities. Your investment adviser will help guide you through the differences in the Balanced and Growth categories and the different risk levels that apply to both.
Approved Immigration NZ Service
Our Craigs Investment Partners Immigration NZ investment service is on the Invest New Zealand approved managed funds list. We work closely with Immigration New Zealand and Invest New Zealand to ensure our approach meets with their requirements.
We provide professional, personalised, and confidential advice to meet both your investment goals and AIP Visa investment criteria.
Our Growth category AIP Visa investment service
“Craigs Investment Partners Immigration NZ Investment Service is a Discretionary Investment Managemenet service providing a choice of multiple managed funds to create a personalised diverse portfolio. The service is a team approach with investment advisers and analysts providing investment guidance on selecting and monitoring available managed funds according to your needs.”
Why Craigs?
Expert advice across New Zealand
With a network of more than 20 locations, and over 190 advisers nationwide, our expertise is never far away to help you achieve your investment goals.
For AIP Visa clients, we offer a team approach with our local advisers and our Specialised Wealth Advisory team, working together to guide your investment journey in New Zealand.
Our investment advisers can also assist you with other non-AIP Visa immigration investor pathways.
Global and domestic research at your fingertips
Our research team is one of the largest in-house research teams in New Zealand with with deep local knowledge of both public and private markets. They deliver the very latest in local and global market insights. This includes detailed information and expertise on sustainable investing to support more considered investment choices.
Supporting Kiwi investing
We’ve been a proud kiwi grown business since we first opened our doors in 1984 and we’re 50% owned by current and former Craigs’ employees and directors. Today we are one of New Zealand’s leading investment advisory firms. During that time, we’ve assisted over 65,000 kiwis on their investment journey.