DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) – In a still tight job market, Southern Methodist University senior and real estate major Michael Sizemore has a problem to be envied.

“I had this image of insurance as an industry for people with a lot of experience. I was surprised on my job interview to find that everyone on the interview team was about my age. What I’ve discovered is that many of the people in the industry are now retiring and so there are lots of opportunities for young graduates just entering the field,” says Katie Beth Adkins, BBA 2008.

The findings about venture debt by Finance Professor Indraneel Chakraborty of SMU Cox School of Business and co-author Michael Ewens provides new insights into the nature of debt in an entrepreneurial or VC-backed firm.

Texas has seen a migration of businesses and workers from other states, including California and New York, adding more people than any other state in the country. That trend should continue with Texas' favorable business climate, said W. Michael Cox, director of the William J. O'Neil Center for Global Markets and Freedom at Southern Methodist University

RVING, Texas, Feb. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- ACE Cash Express, Inc., a leading retailer of financial services, announced that Cox MBA Douglas Lindsay has been promoted to the role of Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer