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Bruce Kelly

InvestmentNews

Bruce Kelly

Senior Columnist

26 years experience

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Bruce's specialty topics

Legal and compliance Advisor compensation Alternative investments

Bruce is Senior Columnist for InvestmentNews, a leading publication for financial advisors and the wealth management industry.

An award-winning journalist, Bruce’s career at InvestmentNews began in 2000, two years after the launch of the newspaper. He has covered the brokerage industry ever since, focusing on financial advisors’ pay, the products they sell, and the firms on and off Wall Street where they work.

His reporting in the financial crisis 2008 and thereafter shed light on the many shortcomings of the financial advice industry, from weak regulation to the collapse of many broker-dealers.

Bruce writes an award-winning column, On Advice, and his daily breaking news reports give clarity and insight into what’s happening behind closed doors at the largest brokerage firms in the country.

Before becoming a journalist, Bruce taught middle school and high school English in Manhattan and Caracas, Venezuela, for a decade. He is the co-author of a 2010 book, “Financial Serial Killers,” and has two children.

How I think about writing for this industry…

“I love covering the financial advice business. We write about financial advisors and how they care about clients' lifesavings - what is more important than that?”

Awards and recognition

2 SABEW awards
Neal Award

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Co-author of "Financial Serial Killers"

Read the latest stories by Bruce

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PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JAN 06, 2021

Morgan Stanley taps head of private wealth management to lead HR

Firm veteran Mandell Crawley takes new job; Elizabeth Dennis will succeed him as head of private wealth management

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JAN 04, 2021

LPL hit with $6.5 million Finra fine over lax supervision

The sanction addressed failures to maintain proper oversight of advisers, which included a Ponzi scheme, according to the regulator

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE DEC 31, 2020

Finra smacks small B-D with $1.55 million penalty for churning

Worden Capital Management displayed lax oversight of brokers' trades, according to Finra

ALTERNATIVES DEC 23, 2020

Ex-insurance agent at heart of alleged $2.5 million fraud

Julie Ann Moskin and Retire Happy received fees for selling dubious securities, according to Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin