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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Shake-up at Schorsch subsidiary First Allied Securities
INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS MAY 13, 2014
Shake-up at Schorsch subsidiary First Allied Securities

One of Nicholas Schorsch's RCS Capital broker-dealer subsidiaries has an analyst questioning its future management structure after a change in the B-D's leadership.

RIA NEWS MAY 12, 2014
Chief compliance officer for Raymond James Financial Services resigns

No reason given for Donald Runkle's departure; worked at firm for 21 years.

PRACTICE MANAGEMENT MAY 11, 2014
In this Finra program, the eyes have it

A new initiative has the regulator looking at private placements more closely and in real time.

RIA NEWS MAY 05, 2014
Berthel Fisher has new lease on life

Since the credit crisis, the financial advice industry has been littered with the dead shells of IBDs that sold fraudulent private placements before the crash. Berthel Fisher has survived. Bruce Kelly has the story.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 30, 2014
Former Cetera owner Don Marron returns to the investment advice business

Industry vet says the future lies in retail, with baby boomers retiring and workers being moved to defined contribution plans away from pensions.

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 29, 2014
Independent broker-dealers poised to keep roaring in 2014

ALTERNATIVES APR 28, 2014
A better TIC?

Newfangled private placements called DSTs offer some improvements to TICs, many of which backfired during the financial crisis, but DSTs still carry high costs and are illiquid. Bruce Kelly has the story.

RIA NEWS APR 28, 2014
Schorsch teeing up another possible broker-dealer acquisition

Real estate tycoon's B-D has "exclusivity agreement" to negotiate with one firm, according to SEC filing.

RIA NEWS APR 28, 2014
Independent B-Ds eager to see more M&A activity as Schorsch takes breather

Large shareholder of National Holdings urges firm to take advantage of 'window of opportunity'

INDEPENDENT BROKER DEALERS APR 28, 2014
Woodbury Financial Services promotes Rick Fergesen to president and CEO

Broker-dealer had sought a new chief since Pat McEvoy resigned in December.