
University of South Florida
Sarasota Life
Cumberland Advisors moved its headquarters from New Jersey to Sarasota, Florida in 2009. Since then, David Kotok has had involvement with the University of South Florida (USF), Sarasota-Manatee campus.
University of South Florida
In 2020, Kotok and his firm, Cumberland Advisors, gifted 12 Bloomberg terminals to the University of South Florida’s business school on Sarasota-Manatee campus15. Those Bloomberg terminals are available to students. Bloomberg terminals are a powerful resource providing real time data from markets around the world, in addition to news, research, and powerful analytics used by top decision-makers in finance, business, and government. Students can use the terminals for class work, for research, or just to learn about the Bloomberg system.

For information about the Bloomberg Terminal Lab, see the following: https://researchmagazine.sarasotamanatee.usf.edu/spotlight-david-kotok/
Additionally, Kotok has been involved in organizing the following events and lectures at USF, bringing together students, faculty, and experts from the financial industry to discuss economic issues and trends. These were publicly available to the entire Sarasota region. A partial list follows:
- Cuba and the Caribbean: What Now? at Selby Auditorium at USF Sarasota-Manatee February 22, 2018
- Second Annual Financial Literacy Day: An Update on the Financial Markets and Economy at Selby Auditorium at USF Sarasota-Manatee April 5, 2018
- Adapting to a Changing Climate at Selby Auditorium at USF Sarasota-Manatee January 25, 2019
- Third Annual Financial Literacy Day at Selby Auditorium at USF Sarasota-Manatee April 11, 2019
- Fourth Annual Financial Literacy Day at Selby Auditorium at USF Sarasota-Manatee February 14, 2020
- Ukraine: One Year Later – Session I: Monetary Policy and Market Implications at Selby Auditorium at USF Sarasota-Manatee February 16-17, 2023
- Ukraine: One Year Later – Session III: Food, Famine, and Energy, plus the Effects of the War on Central Bank Policy and Financial Markets virtual with speakers presenting from the Selby Auditorium at USF Sarasota-Manatee March 23-24, 2023
- Cryptocurrency and the Future of Global Finance at Selby Auditorium at USF Sarasota-Manatee April 20-21, 2023
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