Bruce Kelly

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.

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Schorsch's AR Global to sell BDC adviser to Benefit Street Partners
ALTERNATIVES SEP 08, 2016
Schorsch's AR Global to sell BDC adviser to Benefit Street Partners

While terms were not released, the price tag could be as much as $70 million, according to one industry executive.

RCAP to close wholesaling REIT division after charges of fraud, declining sales
ALTERNATIVES SEP 08, 2016
RCAP to close wholesaling REIT division after charges of fraud, declining sales

Company founded by one-time real estate mogul Nicholas Schorsch announces $3 million settlement with Massachusetts Securities Division and said it will lay off nearly 150 employees.

After bankruptcy, Cetera Financial Group looking to sell Legend Equities Corp.
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS SEP 02, 2016
After bankruptcy, Cetera Financial Group looking to sell Legend Equities Corp.

Cetera CEO Larry Roth says the company is shedding the RCS Capital name, officially putting the Nicholas Schorsch era behind it.

Cetera leadership issue could be settled within days
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS SEP 01, 2016
Cetera leadership issue could be settled within days

CEO Larry Roth acknowledges that the company has been looking at senior management structure.

Cetera advisers in the dark after report that CEO Larry Roth will be replaced by chairman Robert Moore
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS SEP 01, 2016
Cetera advisers in the dark after report that CEO Larry Roth will be replaced by chairman Robert Moore

The company remains mum about reports that Mr. Roth has been replaced by chairman Robert Moore as CEO. <i>Plus: <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/article/20160815/BLOG09/160819961/key-principles-to-guide-corporate-governance-procedures-for-the-ibd&quot;" target="&quot;_blank&quot;" rel="noopener noreferrer"> Mr. Roth and Mr. Moore discuss the principles they developed for Cetera's board</a></i>

Independent broker-dealers suffer worst year since credit crisis
PRACTICE MANAGEMENT AUG 29, 2016
Independent broker-dealers suffer worst year since credit crisis

Coming off a gloomy 2015 of weak revenue growth, the forecast for this year is for more of the same.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS AUG 25, 2016
Medical Capital executive gets 10-year sentence for private placement fraud

Joseph J. Lampariello also ordered to pay nearly $40 million in restitution.

ALTERNATIVES AUG 23, 2016
REIT with a twist and a high commission is new darling of independent brokers-dealers

Preferred Apartment Communities Inc. is selling nontraded preferred shares to help fund its growth, giving brokers a 7% commission.

DOL fiduciary rule sparks LPL to standardize fees on mutual funds: CEO
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS AUG 22, 2016
DOL fiduciary rule sparks LPL to standardize fees on mutual funds: CEO

New regulation was catalyst for broker-dealer to impose uniformity, says LPL Financial's Mark Casady.

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE AUG 21, 2016
Talk-show radio host and adviser Ray Lucia Sr. still fighting SEC bar in appeals court

Nearly three years after he was thrown out of the securities industry, the adviser has filed another appeal.