A tangled web we weave

The portfolio of the international cross-border investor is a strange one - a web of global investment products domiciled across many countries, glued together with the ephemeral thread of international law. At any point, one of the countries with which the investor does business could choose to alter its treatment of expatriates; any one of the many product providers used could go bust, leaving questions about the value of the products it sold floating in the air; and any one of the many accountants, lawyers, and other intermediaries a typical international client uses, could make a mistak...