Bruce Kelly

InvestmentNews

Bruce Kelly

Senior Columnist

26 years experience

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"

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INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JAN 24, 2018
Wells Fargo erasing hurdles for advisers looking to move to its IBD

If advisers commit to staying at FiNet for a two-to-three year period, they will not have to pay Wells the fees it currently charges advisers switching channels.

WIREHOUSES JAN 22, 2018
UBS adviser count continues to decline

Firm to merge U.S., global wealth management units on Feb. 1

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JAN 18, 2018
Morgan Stanley reports a loss of advisers after exiting the protocol for broker recruiting

The firm said it lost 47 brokers in the fourth quarter, the most in any quarter of 2017.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JAN 17, 2018
Relying on trainees, Merrill Lynch boosts adviser headcount in 2017

Questions remain about long-term effectiveness of wirehouse's move away from recruiting experienced brokers.

WIREHOUSES JAN 16, 2018
Rising star at Merrill in New York lands at JP Morgan Chase

Racquel Oden to oversee branch and wealth management teams for tri-state area.

RIA NEWS JAN 08, 2018
Brokerage stocks still have room to run: analyst

Policy tailwinds and economic drivers appear poised to give a shot to the earnings of smaller, mid-cap brokers and electronic trading firms, Nomura's Steven Chubak says.

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE 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.

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.

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.

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.