Trusts can safeguard assets against strategic risks such as confiscation or expropriation by the state of the settlor's domicile, residence or nationality.
The legal ownership of the assets are vested in the trustee and not the settlor and/or beneficiaries. This is particularly useful where the social and political climate can easily become unstable in the home country of the settlor and he or she wishes to place the ownership of his or her assets in a safe and stable jurisdiction.