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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ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2014
Claiming bad oversight, ex-rep urges investors reject REIT offer

Says adviser is lowballing American Spectrum.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUL 21, 2014
Investors Capital shareholders back Schorsch's RCS Capital merger

$52.5 million cash and stock deal scheduled to close on Friday.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS JUL 21, 2014
Securities America buying Dalton Strategic Investment Services

Trend of small and midsize broker-dealer mergers and acquisitions continues to build.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2014
RCS Capital's stock: How low can it go?

The broker-dealer saw its shares dip again on Thursday after it lowered the price of its secondary offering. That follows a 37% decline in the company's share price in the past month. Investors, however, could stand to benefit. Bruce Kelly has the story.

ALTERNATIVES JUL 21, 2014
Rich payday for Schorsch and his partners

Between <a href=&quot;http://www.investmentnews.com/article/20140529/FREE/140529913&quot;>RCAP's stock offering</a> and real estate firm's executive comp plan, Nicholas Schorsch and his team could enjoy a multimillion-dollar payday.

RIA NEWS JUL 21, 2014
Earnings surge at Ladenburg Thalmann

The securities house pointed to &#8220;improved market conditions, successful recruitment of additional advisers and increased advisory assets under management&#8221; for the increase in revenues.

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>

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.

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.

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.