Curian Capital, an indirect subsidiary of New York-listed Prudential, has appointed Keith Johnson as vice president of practice management, responsible for supporting financial advisors in growing their business.

Johnson is charged with developing educational content, sales and marketing presentations, and other tools for advisors to improve profitability. He will also work on building relationships with Curian’s broker-dealer partners.

Based in Denver, Johnson will lead the practice management group and report to Mark Schoenbeck, senior vice president of marketing.

He joined the firm from Aloha Retirement Services, a financial planning and investment advisory firm, where he was president.

Curian is a registered investment advisor which provides fee-based separately managed accounts to financial professionals. It had $6.7 billion in assets under management as of 30 September 2011.