Internship Opportunity
Application closes January 15
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Ex Labs is a highly competitive accelerator lab that exposes participants to the latest trends and strategies used in the technology industry. Students from USF's St. Petersburg campus and all majors from the Muma College of Business will be able to engage with industry mentors from Tech Data and develop valuable skills in problem solving, leadership, diversity and inclusion, networking, data analytics and more.
Ex Labs is now available as an Internship for Credit: GEB4941. Interested students should contact their academic adviser for more information.
Students will learn how to translate strengths from their particular major into a successful career in the technology industry and be part of a team that will create a new IoT product, craft a multi-faceted business plan and develop a strategy to take the product to market.
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Real Estate Concentration
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Finance students at USF have the opportunity to select one of several concentrations, the real estate concentration is trending up in its popularity. Despite the pandemic and its challenges, the program has had great success with job and internship placement for students. This past month students have secured positions with Citi, Savills and Meritage Homes. Over the past two years, the Real Estate Society at USF has grown from 225 to over 450 students. This student organization helps students become more aware of the often-overlooked (yet highly lucrative) career opportunities in commercial real estate. Read more here.
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Nandini Agarwal - Bachelor's Degrees in Accounting & Finance
By nearly every measure, Nandini Agarwal’s USF journey has been one of immense triumph and accomplishment. After emigrating from India just five years ago, Agarwal graduated with dual bachelor’s degrees in accounting and finance and has been named USF’s Outstanding Graduate for the fall 2020 semester – another in a long list of accolades. Read more here.
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Timothy Henning Endures Two years of Amateur Hockey Before Focusing on Finance
“I always knew that I wanted to do finance,” Henning said. “I worked at a local country club while growing up and many of the members were in finance. I started looking into the industry during my freshman year of high school and have stayed interested ever since.”
Although Henning remained passionate about hockey, he focused on making it easier for himself to secure a full-time job post-graduation. Academics and professional involvement reigned.
“I kept my grades up and got involved with the USF Student Investment Club,” said Henning, who was elected president of the club in his second year, “and that helped set me on the right track for getting more serious about a career in finance.” Read more here.
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Finance Alumnus Works as Wealth Management Analyst, J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Jonathan Ebberhart graduated from USF in May 2020 with a degree in finance, concentrating in asset management, with minors in political science and economics. During his time in school, Ebberhart completed an internship with the J.P. Morgan Private Bank, which led to a full time job offer. Ebberhart has been working with J.P. Morgan Private Bank in Tampa since June 2020. His role as a wealth management analyst is to create personalized wealth plans for individuals, families, endowments, and foundations. Though he has been working remotely since June, he truly enjoys the job and being part of his team.
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Jane Mason Donates to Leadership Award Fund
Jane Mason, CEO of Clarifire, USF alumna and chair of the Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance Dean’s Advisory Board donated $5,000 towards the Dean’s Advisory Board Leadership Award fund. “When you serve on a board, you are not only responsible for the personal contribution of time and effort, but if you can make a monetary contribution to help students, it is important as well, especially in these times.”
Mason feels that it is essential to incentivize students to assume leadership roles. While earning a degree is important, the experience of stepping up to be a leader and connecting with others is equally valuable. This is not Mason’s first gift to the USF community. She recently granted the USF College of Nursing faculty, staff and students free access to one of Clarifire’s mobile audit software programs called Bedside Shift. Read the full article here.
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Dan Bradley, Champion of Research
Daniel Bradley has been teaching at USF since 2008. Bradley teaches in the MBA, Executive MBA, and PhD programs. He has always had an interest in financial analysts, their behavior, and potential conflict of interests in the industry. Bradley is currently working on a paper with USF colleague Jared Williams, and another from Kentucky, looking at non-deal roadshows and how these private meetings with investors seemingly violate the spirit of major regulations that have been put in place in the past two decades to protect retail investors.
A champion of research, Bradley earned his PhD from the University of Kentucky. He received the Muma College of Business Research Award in 2013, 2017-19, the USF Outstanding Research Faculty Award in 2018, and was named a Fulbright Core recipient in 2018 where he did research at ISCTE in Lisbon. Read the full spotlight here.
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Financial Literacy Advice
Sponsored by the Merrill Lynch Wealth Management Center
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It Is Time to Review your Homeowners Insurance Coverage
Xiaomin Guo, Ph.D., CFP®
Many of us hold homeowners insurance to protect ourselves from huge potential financial loss due to the damage to our sweet homes, especially if we still have mortgage balance outstanding. Homeowners insurance provides coverages over dwelling and other structures, personal properties inside the building, loss of use, as well as personal liability to others. The premium we pay for insurance depends on how much coverage we buy for our homes. For a $300,000 value home, you can definitely by $300,000 dwelling coverage, or $250,000, or just $200,000. Of course, the less coverage we buy, the more we can save on insurance. But is it a good practice to save on homeowners insurance in this way? Read the full article here.
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Here's How to Start Saving Money - Even if You Don't Have Room in Your Budget
Carson Kohler, Staff Writer, The Penny Hoarder
Not sure where to start? Without a plan, it’s easy to become overwhelmed and frustrated.
Don’t worry. Just follow these steps — one at a time, please! — and you’ll discover the money-saving journey isn’t so bad, even if you are on a tight budget. Read the full article here.
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Faculty Publications & Presentations
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Kiyoung Chang, Ying Li, and Ha-Chin Yi, "Informed Equity Ownership and Bank Loan Contracting", 2020, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, forthcoming
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USF Muma College of Business
Kate Tiedemann School of Business and Finance
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