Reasons to be cheerful - part 12

After a year in the editor's chair, readers may be forgiven for raising an eyebrow at my monthly displays of tireless optimism. After all, during that time international advisers have had to cope with a new tax regime that threatened to render offshore bonds - the cornerstone of many a financial planning strategy - unworkable; changes to the residence and domicile rules affecting both expat and non-dom clients; and now a global financial crisis that has the broadcast media in particular struggling to coin ever more doom-laden superlatives. As I write, many developing markets are showing d...