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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.

It’s bad enough that the shadowy ‘Enough’ continues to hide its identity and the source of its big money....

The expensive battle between the Potawatomi and Menominee tribes over permission to build a giant new casino in Kenosha, Wisconsin has unending twists, turns, pros and cons, but there is one thing it isn’t.

Tesla Motors will install a supercharging station for electric vehicles at the Pleasant Prairie Premium Outlets as part of its nationwide rollout of charging stations for its car owners.

It wasn't easy, but Keith Wandell has turned the tide at Harley-Davidson.

Glendale-based Johnson Controls Inc. has named William Jackson executive vice president of the company's newly created Corporate Development function.

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.

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.