Merrill Lynch's 'thundering herd' of advisers are winning over troves of new millionaires, and the growth is coming from a surprising place

Alex Morrell | The division added 29,000 net new households last year, and a significant chunk came from Merrill veterans with more than 30 years of experience.

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$555 billion asset manager AB's CEO wants to grow its credit business and it's part of a push into higher-fee products

Meghan Morris | Other asset managers like BlackRock have expanded into higher-fee and longer lock-up alternative products as investors flee mutual funds.

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Meet the JPMorgan banker with no technical expertise who’s now in charge of one of the biggest data projects on Wall Street

Dakin Campbell | Casper's role shows how important data is to Wall Street's plans to hold on to customers and markets, despite the upheaval brought by technology.

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A startup founded by a former hedge fund manager gives traders as much performance feedback as athletes so they can make better decisions. Not everyone wants in.

Meghan Morris | Essentia Analytics, founded by a former hedge fund manager turned software company president, wants to help traders identify decisions that make money and avoid those that don't.

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Investor behavior has reached an extreme not seen in 15 years. Here's why that could be signaling a stock-market explosion to new highs.

Christopher Competiello | Bernstein makes a compelling case for why stock investors worried about massive equity-fund outflows should relax and stay positive.

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The opaque bond market could be the next frontier for the booming alternative-data business that's on track to grow to $7 billion

Dan DeFrancesco | After taking stock trading by storm, the use of alternative data could move to US corporate bonds next.

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Hedge-fund managers are overwhelmed by data, and they're turning to an unlikely source: random people on the internet

Bradley Saacks | Platforms like Quantopian and QuantConnect give anyone the ability to look for investment signals in data, and funds can license the best ones.

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CNN explains why it's pulling its high-performing Anderson Cooper news show off Facebook Watch

Lucia Moses | CNN will stream "Anderson Cooper Full Circle," one of Facebook's most popular Watch news shows, exclusively on its own site and apps.

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uBiome convinced Silicon Valley that testing poop was worth $600 million. Then the FBI came knocking. Here's the inside story.

Erin Brodwin | Read how uBiome cut corners on its science and put the company's growth before patients' best interests.

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