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.

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

SRO recorded substantial losses in 2012

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ALTERNATIVES JUN 27, 2013
Apple REIT Six OKs merger

Latest nontraded property trust to announce liquidity event

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUN 26, 2013
Finra charges brokerage chief Belesis and firm with fraud

Finra has charged brokerage chief Tommy Belesis and his firm, John Thomas Financial, with fraud in a front-running scheme to make $1 million on a penny stock. Bruce Kelly has the story.