4.A class of moneymen who once only managed funds for buccaneering, rich families now count the world's largest public pension funds and endowments as clients.
5.The moneymen also moved quickly to " triage" companies in their portfolio, classifying them according to how likely they were to survive and what they should do.
6.The book is particularly good on Britain's " second empire" : its network of overseas territories, from Jersey to the Cayman Islands, the growth of which was driven by moneymen looking to create a tax- and regulation-free " elsewhere" .