Practice Drills: Scoring Geopolitical Risk for a Cross Border Investment

A hands-on drill course for macro-focused investors, fund managers, and senior finance professionals who have to put a number on geopolitical risk before capital crosses a border. You work through one simulated case end to end: a sample NSE-listed Indian manufacturer choosing between three candidate countries for its first overseas plant. You will design a scoring framework with anchored scales and deal-specific weights, gather evidence and score each country on political stability, regulatory and expropriation risk, sanctions and alignment, conflict exposure, currency convertibility, and the bilateral relationship with India. You will then convert the scores into a country risk premium and a scenario-weighted NPV, test which assumptions flip the ranking, and structure the deal using political risk insurance, treaty routing, staged capital, hedging, and the FEMA Overseas Investment rules. The course closes with a trigger-based monitoring dashboard and a complete investment committee memo.