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B.C. Ziegler and Company has announced it will be hiring nine new advisors in the Milwaukee market over the next three years.

Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc.’s fixed income asset management division, Baird Advisors, has signed a deal in which it will directly advise clients of Dearborn Partners LLC.

Bank directors have become more optimistic about economic improvement, with 43 percent expecting recovery progress by the end of the year, up from 13 percent in 2012, according to a survey by Bank Director and Grant Thornton LLP.

Often legislation is dull and boring. Or it seems so. The gobblygook that gets through Madison is ponderous and details the detail. We as business men and women don’t think it affects us.

Milwaukee-based Brady Corp. reported a fiscal fourth quarter net loss of $177.3 million, or $3.41 per share, compared with a net profit of $11.7 million, or 40 cents per share, in the same period a year ago.

One of my businesses is TranquilEase. I hold a patent for a portable Heated Stadium Cushion with a frame, patent #7438356, a very nice product.

Waukesha-based DUECO Inc. has introduced an aerial lift truck unit that allows for an extra long reach when trimming trees or performing backyard power line maintenance.

Kenall Manufacturing evaluated both northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin for a year before it announced it would move operations from Gurnee, Ill. to Kenosha last week.

Pabulum leadership words really bug me – but not as bad as they may bug you if they're uttered by your leader.

High-yield bonds are commonly referred to as “junk bonds,” but when it comes to the benefits this asset class provides, investors should not be too quick to discard them when building portfolios.