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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.

Glendale-based Johnson Controls Inc. has named William Jackson as executive vice president of the company's newly created Corporate Development function.
Jackson will report to vice chairman Alex Molinaroli.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc. has acquired all of the outstanding equity of G.W. Palmer Logistics, LLC, a non-asset truckload service provider based in Batesville, Ark.

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.

Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. downgraded Milwaukee-based Brady Corp.'s stock from “outperform” to “neutral” with a price target of $33.00, down from $41.00, after a disappointing quarterly report Thursday.

Sheboygan-based Acuity announced it is open for business in Wyoming and Montana and has begun appointing agents in those states.

A local nonprofit organization announced it has acquired the Milwaukee Breakwater Lighthouse from the federal government and has plans to restore the 87-year-old structure and make it accessible to the public.

Wisconsin Bank & Trust will host an open house at its new mortgage loan origination office in Brookfield on Tuesday, September 24, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.