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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REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE AUG 05, 2014
Finra panel smacks Morgan Stanley with $4.5M arbitration award

Morgan Stanley loses Finra arbitration dispute to Banco Nacional de Mexico SA, the Mexican bank known as Banamex.

RIA NEWS AUG 01, 2014
Ameriprise advice unit reports 29% increase in pretax profit

Net revenue per adviser up 14%, reaches $468,000

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS AUG 01, 2014
Securities America buying insurance-based B-D

Sunset Financial Services has 268 affiliated reps and $2.4 billion in client assets.

Citibank knocks LPL Financial down a peg
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUL 31, 2014
Citibank knocks LPL Financial down a peg

Analysts highlight the leading IBD's string of regulatory issues

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE JUL 31, 2014
Broker in alleged penny stock scheme already focus of customer complaints

Matthew Bell has checkered history in securities industry.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 29, 2014
Oopsy daisy: private REIT loses 87.5% of value

American Spectrum Advisors, the adviser to the American Spectrum REIT I Inc., this month offered to buy 1.6 million shares of the moribund REIT for $1.25 per share. The shares were originally sold for $10 per share.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 29, 2014
Are nontraded REIT commissions headed for a fall?

New rules proposed by Finra will make fees more transparent, but could result in lower upfront commissions for brokers, Bruce Kelly reports.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 28, 2014
Nontraded REIT signals liquidity on the way

Phillips Edison-ARC Shopping Center REIT Inc. has hired advisers to evaluate alternatives.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUL 24, 2014
LPL losing a top recruiter

LPL is losing one of its leading recruiters, in the wake of three other recruiters resigning in the past year and a half.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 23, 2014
Liquidity events heating up REIT market this summer

New deals are being announced, while others are being completed.