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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FINTECH MAR 27, 2014
Envestnet gets a lot of love from advisers and the Street

Investment advisers are flocking to the asset management and technology company and it's become a market darling. The stock is up 178% over the last year.

EMERGING MARKETS MAR 21, 2014
Finra freezes new arbitration cases in Puerto Rico

Finra freezes new arbitration cases in Puerto Rico as a flood of claims sends the regulator scrambling to find more arbitrators. Bruce Kelly has the story.

RETIREMENT PLANNING MAR 20, 2014
Once-mighty nontraded REIT sponsor Inland Real Estate Investment Corp. plots a comeback

Mitchell Sabshon plots a course for nontraded REIT sponsor Inland Real Estate Investment Corp. to recreate its prior success.

RIA NEWS MAR 18, 2014
Galvin begins examination of Puerto Rican muni debt obligations

Massachusetts securities regulators, led by William Galvin, have started looking into the sales Puerto Rican municipal debt obligations, sending inquiry letters to several firms.

MUTUAL FUNDS MAR 18, 2014
UBS facing legal fight over Puerto Rico bond funds gone south

A UBS unit is facing a legal fight over the sale of Puerto Rico closed-end-bond funds after their values slumped. Bruce Kelly has the story.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAR 17, 2014
Schorsch's RCS Capital moves to keep its 9,000 registered reps in the fold

In a highly anticipated move, RCS Capital Corp. said that it intends to create a retention package for the 9,000 registered representatives and investment advisers that it has acquired since the company had its initial public offering last June.

RIA NEWS MAR 17, 2014
Schorsch: RCS Capital is the next Merrill or Raymond James

Nicholas Schorsch, picking up Cetera Financial for $1.15 billion, likens his RCS Capital to two of the biggest names in the retail-securities industry and dismisses the notion he overpaid. <i>See also: <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/article/20140116/FREE/140119925&quot;" target="&quot;_blank&quot;" rel="noopener noreferrer">Marron scores big on Cetera deal</a>.</i>

REGULATION, LEGAL & COMPLIANCE MAR 16, 2014
Finra arb panel sends reps a message

Steep punitive damages awarded to a client show that reps will be forced to pay heavily for their misconduct

ALTERNATIVES MAR 06, 2014
Schorsch's American Realty Capital Properties merges with Cole Real Estate Investments

Deal finalized, creating the largest net lease REIT with an enterprise value of $21.5 billion.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAR 04, 2014
How many more wolves are left on Wall Street?

Investors and regulators are more tuned in to fraud now than in the days of the big boiler rooms.