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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INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2014
Tony Thompson exits nontraded REIT business

In stunning turnaround, the noted real estate investor gets $1.07 million for his shares in disputed REIT, ending a <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/article/20131029/FREE/131029892&quot;" target="&quot;_blank&quot;" rel="noopener noreferrer">proxy fight</a>. But the story's not over. <i>(See also: <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/article/20130120/REG/301209971&quot;" target="&quot;_blank&quot;" rel="noopener noreferrer">Tony Thompson's hard times</a>)</i>

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2014
Real estate investor Tony Thompson fights back as proxy battle looms

Noted real estate investor Tony Thompson, enmeshed in a proxy fight for control over a nontraded real estate investment trust he launched in 2009 but was ousted from in August, is fighting back.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2014
Real estate investor Thompson defrauded investors, Finra claims

Finra claims that the noted real estate investor Tony Thompson defrauded investors in a $50 million note program.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2014
Investor sues Berthel Fisher over failed Tony Thompson deal

Berthel Fisher, not long after settling most of their claims over DBSI, gets hit with a lawsuit over a failed private placement notes deal by a noted real estate investor. Bruce Kelly has the details.

YOUR PRACTICE PRACTICE MANAGEMENT JUL 18, 2014
Adviser misused $8 million in client funds: SEC

Settlement requires him to pay more than $500,000

NEWS BROKER DEALERS JUL 17, 2014
Former rep indicted in $2.5 million investment fraud

Patricia Miller promised clients high yields if they went into &#8220;investment clubs.&#8221;

NEWS BROKER DEALERS JUL 16, 2014
Opinions on bull market split following most recent run-up

After the S&amp;P 500 reaches new heights, new questions surface on whether the market is headed up or down.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 16, 2014
Nontraded REITS headed for another boffo year

Sales expected to hit $20 billion as low interest rates and liquidity events spark industry.

NEWS BROKER DEALERS JUL 15, 2014
At LPL, recruiting is warming up but nontraded REIT sales are cooling

After severe weather crimped its recruiting efforts over the winter, LPL Financial says it's seeing a return to normal levels of adviser movement but that the once-hot nontraded REIT market is cooling off.

NEWS BROKER DEALERS JUL 11, 2014
Why did Sterne Agee fire its CEO?

Why did Sterne Agee <a href=&quot;http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20140527/FREE/140529934&quot;>fire CEO James Holbrook Jr.?</a> Many want to know, especially since the firm and its former CEO were recently accused of all manner of professional hanky-panky.