A debate looking at whether the changes playing out in North America mean that international families can no longer rely on it as a politically stable option.

Proposed motion: This house believes that the United States can no longer be relied upon as a politically stable home for international family wealth

• Political, immigration and regulatory unpredictability, and how families are pricing it
• Protectionism and changing international relationships
• Evidence of movement: are assets and families actually leaving, or is this adviser anecdote?
• Estate tax exposure on US situs assets as the standing objection, and how well it is managed in practice
• Whether the alternatives are genuinely safer or merely differently risky