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 BROKER DEALERS JUL 21, 2013
Stand-alone LPL reps to see big fee hike

Firm will no longer allow one-person shops to supervise themselves.

NEWS REGULATION AND LEGISLATION JUL 18, 2013
Finra's financial woes no recipe for viability

SRO recorded substantial losses in 2012

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 17, 2013
Nontraded-REIT party is about to commence

A half dozen nontraded REITs are planning 'liquidity events' that could float investors' boats. Bruce Kelly has the details.

NEWS BROKER DEALERS JUL 16, 2013
LPL's recruiting still slow, pickup seen months away

NEWS WIREHOUSES JUL 16, 2013
Wells Fargo, Merrill to pay $5.1 million to settle charges over bank loan funds

Finra has ordered Wells Fargo and Merrill Lynch to pay $5.1 million to settle charges related to sales of bank loan mutual funds -- just as investors are stampeding into such funds.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 10, 2013
Bosses of broker-breaker Provident Royalties get prison time

Four top executives of private-placement Ponzi scheme Provident Royalties were sentenced to prison, bringing to a close one of the most sordid tales in the history of alternative investments.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 02, 2013
American Realty Capital in another big deal, this time with GE

Nick Schorsch's American Realty Capital Trust IV strikes $1.45 billion deal with GE Capital for a tasty portfolio of properties. The deal comes hot on the heels of an $807 million purchase for his traded REIT last Friday.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUL 01, 2013
Liquidity liquidity everywhere: Schorsch taking REIT brokerage public

It's good times in the nontraded REIT industry. The lastest sign: ARCP boss Nick Schorsch plans to stage yet another 'liquidity' event — this time, taking a REIT brokerage public.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 27, 2013
B-Ds reining in sales of alternatives

Broker-dealers, feeling the heat from regulators, are changing how they sell alternatives. Bruce Kelly has all the details.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES JUN 27, 2013
Apple REIT Six OKs merger

Latest nontraded property trust to announce liquidity event