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Forget the stereotype of a goodbye party in the break room followed by endless days on the golf course. Today, workers are staying on the job longer and taking on more “bridge employment,” or post-retirement jobs. Lanzillotti-McKethan Eminent Scholar Mo Wang talks about what these shifts mean for modern retirement, how retirement can affect people’s mental and physical health, and what workers—even those who still have many years left in the workforce—can do now to help set themselves up for a happy retirement in the future.

A new paper co-authored by UF’s Alejandro Lopez-Lira and Wharton’s Nikolai Roussanov uses machine learning to construct investment portfolios that ensure predictability of returns in a world of changing risks.

TechCrunch spoke with Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter about why stakeholders aren’t likely to push too hard against super-voting shares, despite that now would seem the time to do it.

Banking regulators, which announced the deal late Sunday, had been looking for a buyer since seizing control of the failed bank. The deal for the bank, renamed Silicon Valley Bridge Bank after the F.D.I.C. seized it, included the purchase of about $72 billion in loans, at a discount of $16.5 billion. The discount applied to the loans could help set a benchmark for other banks seeking investment, said Mark Flannery, Bank of America Eminent Scholar.

Retail investors are piling into stock offerings, fueling a jump in new listings by micro-cap companies in the face of a banking crisis that is sidelining bigger deals. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his insights for this story.

First Republic suffered a downgrade on Wednesday from two credit agencies, sending its stock down more than 20%. Jay Ritter, Cordell Eminent Scholar, explained that “rating agencies normally follow rather than lead in terms of the stock price.”

The New Jersey-based regional bank has an increased profile after the trio of recent bank collapses – and will likely face added regulatory scrutiny. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his insights with CoinDesk.

SVB Financial Group’s Silicon Valley Bank on Friday become the first major bank since the global financial crisis in 2008 to be taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in a sudden demise for a once-mighty lender to technology companies in its namesake region. Jay Ritter, Cordell Eminent Scholar, said a rescue by one of the nation’s big banks seemed less likely, in light of an “anti-bigness” posture within the administration of President Joe Biden.

In the hours since the surprise collapse of Silicon Valley Bank with its roughly $209 billion in assets, the U.S. financial system is reeling from the second-largest bank failure in the country’s history. The rapid failure of Silicon Valley Bank left a gaping hole in the tech industry, and some analysts and banking experts have reflected on the similarities and differences from the only American bank collapse larger than the one from this week: Washington Mutual. Cordell Eminent Scholar Jay Ritter shares his insights.