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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Simple due diligence rules for investing in alternatives
ALTERNATIVES JAN 06, 2015
Simple due diligence rules for investing in alternatives

Answers to three big questions when investigating nontraded REITs, BDCs are key before investing client assets

Morgan Stanley fires broker for stealing thousands of clients' data
FINTECH JAN 06, 2015
Morgan Stanley fires broker for stealing thousands of clients' data

Morgan Stanley fired an employee in its wealth management group who had stolen client data and posted some of it online. The theft affected up to 10% — 350,000 — of the firm's 3.5 million wirehouse clients.

ALTERNATIVES JAN 06, 2015
Citigroup slaps 'buy' rating on RCAP as Moody's lowers ARCP debt to junk status

'Upside outweighs downside,' according to RCAP analyst; debt downgrade result of resignations

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JAN 05, 2015
Ladenburg Thalmann to buy Securities Service Network for $45M

Cash and stock deal values the firm, with about 450 independent reps and advisers, at 39.4%, lower than other recent deals.

Former SEC enforcement head Robert Khuzami to defend ex-ARCP chief David Kay
ALTERNATIVES JAN 04, 2015
Former SEC enforcement head Robert Khuzami to defend ex-ARCP chief David Kay

Mr. Khuzami, who is now a partner at Kirkland & Ellis, has signed on as Mr. Kay's attorney in the defense of a complaint filed in December.

ALTERNATIVES JAN 04, 2015
Nicholas Schorsch's REIT empire is under siege

A blockbuster lawsuit alleging misconduct by Nicholas Schorsch is one of many issues confronting his vast real estate empire.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT DEC 30, 2014
Galvin expands investigation of Schorsch empire

Amid <a href=http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20141218/FREE/141219906/schorsch-accused-of-manipulating-arcp-books-suit target=&quot;_blank&quot;>allegations that Nicholas Schorsch ordered underlings to alter financial records</a>, the Massachusetts regulator expands probe to include American Realty Capital Properties.

ALTERNATIVES DEC 29, 2014
Thompson's former nontraded REIT drops nearly 30%

Investors in a nontraded REIT launched by Tony Thompson, the one-time noted real estate sponsor, were told last week that the net asset value of the REIT had eroded by nearly 30%.

ALTERNATIVES DEC 24, 2014
Schorsch allegations will haunt nontraded REIT industry

Industry &quot;floored&quot; by allegation that REIT czar had hand in $23 million accounting error at American Realty Capital Properties.

ALTERNATIVES DEC 23, 2014
Reps selling nontraded REITs could be swimming in liquidity

Up to $13.6 billion in fresh equity expected to flow from listings, mergers and special distributions.