Exchange traded funds (ETFs) offer investors a basket of securities and other assets similar in many ways to a mutual fund, except that shares in an ETF can be bought and sold throughout the day like a stock. Financial institutions purchase and redeem ETF "creation units" (shares), which can trade at a discount or premium of net asset value directly from ETF providers.

Fox Point-based General Capital Group LLC recently closed on the purchase of three acres of land and secured financing to build a 90-unit independent living senior housing complex along the South 76th Street, adjacent to Southridge Mall in Greendale.

The National People's Congress (NPC) approved the 12th Five-Year Plan (FYP) on March 14, 2011. The NPC is China's law-making body. Each Five-Year Plan in essence becomes the blueprint for direct government action and further law- and rule-making.

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Milwaukee-based Marcus Corp.'s plans to develop a 600,000-square-foot commercial real estate development at Barker Road and Bluemound Road in the Town of Brookfield with about 480,000 square feet of retail space, anchored by a Von Maur department store, could create a significant shift in the southeastern Wisconsin retail real estate market.

The unfolding crisis in Japan, rising energy and commodity prices, military action in Libya and other global events are having an effect on the U.S. economy, but are unlikely to tip the country back into recession, several Midwestern economists say.

Because of the significant growth seen in emerging global markets over the last 10 years and projections for continued growth in countries such as China, India, Brazil and Russia, some investors might want to explore purchasing assets in those markets.

The Milwaukee Brewing Company, which produces beer sold at the Milwaukee Ale House and Grafton Ale House, and several beer brands that are sold in liquor and stores throughout the Milwaukee area, will soon make improvements to its facility, expand production and develop new marketing programs, thanks to the involvement of a new equity investor.

Milwaukee is a city with a notoriously modest skyline. Matt Rinka is a modest, but extremely talented, Milwaukee architect.

However, this humble architect is going to change Milwaukee’s humble skyline.

“I would say in the past 30 years of being involved in (the Milwaukee commercial real estate industry), I would put him among the most talented architects I’ve run across in this city,” said Joel Lee, president of Milwaukee-based Van Buren Management Inc., one of the largest commercial property owners in downtown Milwaukee. “He can certainly compete with anyone from Chicago and anybody else.”

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Because of the layoffs caused by the Great Recession, the number of entrepreneurs, independent developers, designers and self-employed people, particularly in the Milwaukee area, has been on the rise over the past few years.

Chuck Engberg and Keith Anderson, founders of the Milwaukee-based Engberg Anderson Inc. architectural firm, have announced plans to transition the firm's leadership to the five remaining partners.