“For the 262 SPAC mergers that were completed during 2020 and 2021, the average stock price on Dec. 31, 2021, was $8.70, considerably below the average price of more than $10 per share at which the stocks traded at the
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3 top finance textbooks share the same home – UF’s Warrington College of Business
What do some of the world’s leading finance textbooks have in common? Besides critical lessons on topics ranging from financial management to investments to real estate valuation and a majority of the market share on academic finance literature, these textbooks
2021 Is in the Record Books: A Year of Memes, Crypto, and Stock All-Time Highs
Insights from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter inform this story recapping the 2021 markets, including the record $118 billion in gross proceeds from operating company initial public offerings. Read more in this story from Barron’s.
A Booming Startup Market Prompts an Investment Rush for Ever-Younger Companies
Research data from Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter informs this story about how investors in 2021 pumped a record $93 billion into early-stage U.S. startups through Dec. 15, triple the amount from five years before. Read more insights about the 2021
A Lavish Tax Dodge for the Ultrawealthy Is Easily Multiplied
Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares insights in this story about a 1990s-era tax break, once aimed at small businesses, that has become a popular way for Silicon Valley founders and investors to avoid taxes on their investment profits. Read
Blackstone gets stuck with IPO duds this year including Bumble and Oatly
It has been a record-breaking year for IPOs, but it has also been a mixed bag — and billionaire Stephen Schwarzman’s Blackstone Group is among those investors who are picking through their duds. “Investors were buying IPOs on a lot
IPOs have been hot. Now investors are dumping them
“After that first day jump, on average this year IPOs have underperformed the market,” said Jay Ritter, Cordell Eminent Scholar. What gives? Ritter thinks the discrepancy has a lot to do with sky-high expectations on Wall Street. Read more in this
New program prepares students for careers in wealth management
This fall, students at the Warrington College of Business and across the University of Florida will have the opportunity to hone their wealth management skills thanks to a new program dedicated to the subject. Warrington’s wealth management program is designed
Meet Warrington’s new faculty for 2021
The Warrington College of Business is proud to welcome six new faculty members to campus in the 2021-2022 academic year. Learn more about these outstanding new members of the Warrington team who will continue to strengthen the college’s reputation and
The latest innovative ideas from Warrington
Over the 2020-2021 academic year, Warrington College of Business faculty members reminded us why they’re some of the best in the world, despite the challenges brought on by the pandemic. From producing hundreds of new research papers, to teaching countless
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