Banking & Finance

William A. Nurthen has been named chief financial officer of Milwaukee-based ARI Network Services Inc.

Bryan C. Krug will join Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc. in Milwaukee as a fixed income portfolio manager, likely by the end of the year.

Michael J. Weil has been named director of wealth management at Next Generation Wealth Management in Milwaukee.

AXA Advisors LLC has formed The Moore/Kielich Group to serve clients with a variety of financial needs.

Artisan Partners, a global investment management firm founded in Milwaukee, announced today that it signed a major, long-term lease at 875 E. Wisconsin Ave. as the firm plans for its future and growth in the downtown Milwaukee area.

Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment trust, recently purchased the 240,675-square-foot Wells Fargo Home Mortgage office building located at 11200 W. Parkland Ave. in Milwaukee from Columbia Property Trust (formerly known as Wells REIT II) for $26 million, according to state records.

Milwaukee-based International Thermal Systems has acquired the business assets of Continental Equipment Corporation, also in Milwaukee.

As the number of young adults living with their parents has soared to the highest percentage in at least four decades, according to the Pew Research Center, saving for retirement has been hindered by an additional challenge in many households.

The dawn of 2013 brought the biggest tax changes in more than a decade, and this dramatic reshaping of the tax code will change tax planning.