Bruce Kelly

A former middle school and high school English teacher, Bruce Kelly started at InvestmentNews in 2000 as the brokerage reporter after a two-year stint at sister publication Pensions & Investments. He writes a bi-weekly, award winning column, On Advice, and covers the independent broker-dealer industry.

Bruce Kelly
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NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JAN 05, 2018
Massive investment fraud fueled by slick marketing, hot dinners

When advisers make the claim that an investment product has no risk and is crash proof, it is a clear, almost blazing red flag that the investment is a potential fraud.

NEWS WIREHOUSES JAN 04, 2018
Wirehouses turn away from bitcoin

None of the big four brokerages are giving their wealth management and retail advisers access to trading the cryptocurrency or any related products.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT DEC 29, 2017
Citigroup is latest big firm to dump broker protocol

Despite having fewer brokers than Morgan Stanley and UBS, Citi's exit suggests industry recruiting will change.

YOUR PRACTICE FINTECH DEC 28, 2017
Citigroup must pay $11.5 million over garbled stock ratings

Finra says the bank's ratings system was riddled with errors and cost clients money.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES DEC 27, 2017
Nuveen jumps into changing nontraded REIT market

Nontraded REIT sales finishing 2017 near a low, though one variety generating new life.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 22, 2017
After a superb 2017, brokerage stocks should continue to roll next year

Even if the stock market falters, financial stocks should do well in a rising interest rate environment.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 21, 2017
SEC charges Woodbridge Group with running $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme

Bankrupt real estate developer and its founder, Robert Shapiro, accused of targeting 8,400 investors.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION DEC 20, 2017
LPL loses $462,000 arbitration claim stemming from broker who ran Ponzi scheme

LPL was deemed liable for not supervising the broker, Charles Fackrell, who has been sentenced to five years in prison for defrauding clients.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 20, 2017
Manager of Merrill Lynch's flagship Manhattan branch walks

A source at Merrill confirmed Racquel Oden's departure but gave no reasons for her leaving.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS DEC 19, 2017
Broker accepted kickbacks for IPO access: SEC

The SEC alleges that Brian Hirsch subverted allocation policies and procedures at two brokerage firms.