Banking & Finance

New Berlin-based Home Care Medical Inc. a provider of home medical equipment and supplies; respiratory care; and home infusion and specialized nutrition, announced that it has acquired Sheboygan-based HomeCare Resources LLC.

Westbury Bancorp Inc., the West Bend-based holding company for Westbury Bank, has completed its stock offering in connection with the mutual-to-stock conversion of WBSB Bancorp MHC.

Employee-owned Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. announced it has posted record net revenues of $961 million in 2012, up from $925 million in 2011.

McGladrey LLP, a Chicago-based provider of assurance, tax and consulting services focused on the middle market, has named John LeBlanc as national leader of business performance improvement and merger integration, based in the firm's Milwaukee office.

Milwaukee-based Lakeview Equity Partners LLC has acquired UAS Laboratories Inc., an Edina, Minn.-based pioneer in the research, development and manufacture of probiotic nutritional supplements.

Several local businesses are working with students to improve financial literacy rates.

In 2011 and 2012, there were nearly 500 mergers and acquisitions completed that involved Wisconsin-based companies. About 285 involved a Wisconsin-based seller and 289 involved a Wisconsin-based buyer.

The need for retirement planning doesn't end with the onset of retirement. A new retiree's focus shifts from building wealth to managing and preserving it. One major challenge is to make the investment portfolio supply cash flow for the duration of life – and through different economic and market conditions.

While Mike Bark, a principal at Edge Advisors LLC in West Allis, spends most days in the accounting world where “everything is buttoned up,” but outside of the office he lets loose with what he calls “an aggressive, energetic form of music.”

Kenosha-based Pacific Sands Inc. reported that its fiscal third quarter sales revenue was $573,053, an increase of 33 percent compared with revenue in fiscal third quarter 2012.